Defeat

[Nora Sternfeld], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 16:30 - 17:00

At 12 o'clock on April 8, 2005, in the Ostarrichi-Park in front of the Landesgericht (the regional court), a temporary monument to the defeat was unveiled that triggered a debate on the process of denazification and made an issue of the fact that this process was still unfinished today. The eight-sided object was conceived as a monumental plinth and it measured 2 meters in height and had a circumference of 11 meters. Nora Sternfeld presents her concept in german but below you could read the english translation.

The "Dictionary of War" project has four editions: Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and Berlin. The locations that have been chosen to discuss war are cities in the National Socialist successor states that have proven history of criminal wars of aggression and of extermination; they have a history of the industrialization of mass murder.

With the capitulation of the Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945, following the victory of the Allies over the Nazis, the war of extermination ended. Therefore, all four sites for the project represent, to a certain extent, locations after the defeat. This contribution aims to provide a historical-political perspective that perceives the defeat of the German- Austrian Nazis positively.