Accessing Campscapes: Inclusive Strategies for using European Conflicted Heritage Sites

This project looks at traces of the twentieth-century mass violence and terror as tangible reminders of the ‘age of extremes’ and their present uses in (trans)national contexts.

In most post-war European countries former Nazi internment camps have become icons of anti-fascist resistance and the Holocaust. They have played a consistent role in post-war European memory of totalitarianism and genocide. In the Eastern European centre of the Holocaust and Communist terror, many former ‘terrorscapes’ are still contested spaces where consecutive internments of prisoners by occupying powers and authoritarian regimes transformed the victims of one event into the persecutors of another.