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Who owns the street? Interwar Berliners faced this question with great hope yet devastating consequences. In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce. There, partisans and entrepreneurs fought for the attention of crowds with posters, illuminated advertisements, parades, traffic jams, and violence. The Nazi Party relied on how people already experienced the city to stage aggressive political theater, including the April Boycott and Kristallnacht. Observers in Germany and abroad looked to Berlin's streets to predict the future. They saw dazzling window displays that radiated optimism. They also witnessed crime waves, antisemitic rioting, and failed policing that pointed toward societal collapse. Recognizing the power of urban space, officials pursued increasingly radical policies to 'revitalize' the city, culminating in Albert Speer's plan to eradicate the heart of Berlin and build Germania.

Public spaces --- Street vendors --- Street people (Street vendors) --- Vendors, Street --- Merchants --- Peddlers --- Vending stands --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Berlin (Germany) --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- Commerce --- History

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This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds.

National socialism --- Berlin (Germany) --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- History --- World War, 1939-1945. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Historiography. --- Civilization-History. --- Europe, Central-History. --- History of World War II and the Holocaust. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Memory Studies. --- Cultural History. --- History of Germany and Central Europe. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Civilization—History. --- Europe, Central—History.