How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? This book focuses on the case of Nuremberg - a city whose name is linked with Nazism - to explore these questions and their implications.

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"Sharon Macdonald deftly handles this complex terrain, offering a sophisticated theoretical analysis based on a well-grounded ethnographic study. In other words, this book is an exceptional piece of anthropology."-Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh,Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Current Anthropology, Volume 51, Number 3, June 2010