Alles Vergeht, Alles Verweht: Orphaned Heritage of Denmark’s Atlantic Wall.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The most obvious enduring evidence of WWII in Denmark is the concrete bunkers dotting the landscape. On the west coast, the structures were part of the enormous chain of bunkers that created the Atlantic Wall. The bunkers remain today and have become an integral part of the landscape of the west coast. This paper seeks to explore the ways in which the structures have been assimilated into Danish culture, and how the Danish people react to and engage with them. It will also explore the way this dark heritage from the war, something built at the behest of the German occupying force, has been reclaimed by the Danish, and has been made simultaneously both important and unimportant in terms of the Danish culture.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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PaperId(s): 298