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(Divided – United! Preservation of Monuments and Sites in Central Europe at the Time of the Iron Curtain and Today)
25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the richly illustrated conference proceedings illustrate a young and formative chapter in the history of European heritage conservation: the period after 1945 on both sides of the Iron Curtain. With 17 contributions from five different countries, the situation of monument conservation in divided and reunited Germany is integrated into a Central and Eastern European context. The various countries look back on a collaborative tradition of monument conservation and are those most affected by the division. The multi-layered topic is treated in an alternating perspective of the different regions and generations, with contributions from contemporary witnesses and from young experts.