Clare Copley - Nazi Buildings, Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification Berlin

Nazi Buildings, Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification Berlin

Clare Copley

This project began as a PhD thesis at the University of Manchester and thanks must first of all go to my supervisor, Professor Matthew Philpotts, for his incredible generosity with his time, his expertise and his encouragement. I must also take this opportunity to show my gratitude to Professor Maja Zehfuss and Professor Matthew Jefferies for their advice and support and to Professor Chloe Paver, Professor Sharon Macdonald and Professor Stefan Berger for their invaluable input into different stages of this work. I am grateful too to the anonymous reviewers of this book proposal, manuscript and related journal articles their constructive and insightful comments have certainly made this work considerably better than it would otherwise have been. Further thanks must go to the AHRC for providing the scholarship which made the PhD possible and for the additional funding which enabled me to undertake primary research in Berlin. Post-PhD research trips were funded by the University of Central Lancashire and by a Scouloudi Research Grant from the Institute of Historical Research. I am extremely grateful to these institutions for this assistance. Special thanks go to Rhodri, Laura and the team at Bloomsbury for their advice, support and patience throughout this process.

The analysis within this book would have been much less effective without the help of so many of the Berlin-based experts on the case studies who shared their time, knowledge and materials with me: Uwe Pakull, Professor Dr. Harald Bodenschatz, Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schche, Professor Dr. Hans-Ernst Mittig, Professor Dr. Gabi Dolff-Bonekmper, Volker Kluge, Elke Dittrich, Martin Pallgen, Werner Jockeit, Michael Richter and Professor Dr. Stefanie Endlich to name but a few. Thanks also to Paul Sabin for help with tricky translations and to Professor Stuart Elden for his advice on the theoretical side of things. The archivists at the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin , Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde , Bundesarchiv Koblenz , Landesarchiv Berlin and the National Football Museum Archive, Preston, have been unfailingly helpful throughout this project and it would not have been possible without their expertise. Any mistakes are, of course, my own. I am grateful also to the members of the interest groups around Tempelhof who were so forthcoming in explaining their campaigns to me: Beate Winzer of the Frderverein fr ein Gedenken an die Naziverbrechen auf dem Tempelhofer Flugfeld e. V .; Wolfgang Przewieslik of Das Thema Tempelhof e. V. ; and the members of Brgerinitiative Tempelhof 42 and their hosts at Caf Romi. Many thanks to Brill for allowing the reuse of material from Copley, C. Stones Do Not Speak for Themselves: Disentangling Berlins Palimpsest, Fascism , 8 (2) (2019), 21949 and to Cambridge University Press for allowing the reuse of material from Copley, C. Curating Tempelhof: Negotiating the Multiple Histories of Berlin's Symbol of Freedom. Urban History , 44 (4) (2017), 698717.

Since completing the PhD, I have worked at Birkbeck College, University of London and the Universities of Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield and Central Lancashire, and have benefitted greatly from the insights of colleagues and students at all of these institutions. I have also had the opportunity to present parts of this project at conferences, workshops and seminars in London, Cambridge, Berlin, Rome, Belfast, Manchester, Washington D.C. and Arras among other places and am hugely grateful to the audiences for their observations and suggestions which have helped immeasurably with the development of the project. I am extremely thankful for assistance from the German History Society and the German Studies Association in funding my attendance at some of these events.

Many of the seeds for this project were sown while working as a walking tour guide for the great Terry Brewer, whose love for Berlin and encyclopaedic knowledge of the city has been passed on to the new generation of guides. Thanks to him and to his successors for sharing their vast knowledge and understanding of the city and to all my Berlin-based friends for welcoming me into their homes and social lives on my research trips there.

Closer to home, I would like to thank my friends and family for their encouragement, love and support. My husband James has lived and breathed this book almost as much as I have and has been a constant source of wisdom, humour, caffeine and chocolate. Our beautiful daughter, Evelyn, was born in the very final stages of putting the book together. While she may not have helped in the conventional sense, her arrival certainly helped focus the mind and precluded an endless process of final tweaking and potential Verschlimmbesserung . Any errors can be attributed to her and her profound distaste for sleep! I am extremely grateful to James and to my parents, Rhoda and Terry, for their support and for taking care of both of us so well while I finalized the manuscript.