Review: Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders Andrew Demshuk Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, 584 pp. , 160 b/w illus. 65 (cloth), ISBN 9780822946977 Kathleen James-Chakraborty Kathleen James-Chakraborty University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 113–114. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2024; 83 (1): 113–114. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 113 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Andrew Demshuk's Cities after Hitler won the 2023 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. It is an impressive work of scholarship, a lengthy and generously illustrated text well anchored in a rich array of primary and secondary sources. More importantly, it makes a significant and somewhat unusual argument, which is that the postwar reconstructions of three cities that were part of a united Germany from 1871 to 1945 but during the Cold War were located in three different nation-states—the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), and Poland—merit being considered comparatively. Demshuk, a historian, has written previously about postwar expulsions of Germans from land recently acquired by Poland and about the destruction of historic architecture in postwar Leipzig. In this book, he casts what is for architectural historians a refreshingly original light on his subjects, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, and Wrocław. . . You do not currently have access to this content.