Objective
Dealing with the Nazi past, one of the dark parts in Europe's heritage is on of the most important duties of cultural and political activities today. In many European countries the debates are only in the beginning. Controversies about gilt, responsability but also resistance are often connected with neo-nazism as a current phenomenon in many european countries. The project CAMP, "Concentration Camps -a Nazi Heritage in Europe" will provide results of scientific research of the concentration camp history as a prototype for multimedia presentation on CD-ROM and on Internet. The objective of this presentation is to show historival documents, documents of oral history of survivors and scientific text in an integrated multimedia prototype. The main issue of the presentation will be the documentation of every-day-life of victims in Nazi concentration campsin an autobiographical perspective. Additionally to the presentation of two applications the project CAMP will build up the basic multimedia data base for ongoing work to include material from other museums, memorials and collections on the topic of concentration camps. The multimedia presentation gives the user the choice between a broader overview or going into detail, between a more theoretical and a more concrete presentation. The multimedia presentation therefore aims at different target groups: people with a general interest in contemporary history, people with professional interest in the issue (e.g. teachers) and people with scientific interest. The multimedia presentation will reach the younger generation more easily, who is used to CD-ROM and Internet applications. The presentation of the prototype on a WWW basis will help to disseminate information about concentration camps, it will keep up the memory of this part of history and will be helpful for discussions about life in NAzi concentration camps. For the demonstration prototype the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin is particularly apt to demonstrate the European dimension of the history of Nazi concentration camps and to deal with the actuality of the neo-nazi phenomenon - the camp itself was in the centre of the administration of the whole nazi-camp system, spread all over the occupied countries. until 1939 Sachsenhausen was the biggest camp within the boundaries of the "Reich" with people from 48 nationalities imprisoned. - The memorial was the target of an arson attack in September 1992, wich is to be placed in the context of a whole series of right-wring extremist and xenophobic attacks all over Germany and in Europe at this time.
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Germany