By Eve Hooper

Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 6/2014, Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-8062-2961-5.

Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts is special issue of the popular science magazine Archäologie in Deutschland, presenting recent work in contemporary archaeology. Its author, Claudia Theune, focuses largely on relics of National Socialism and, more specifically, the Holocaust in Germany and Austria, but she also refers to Anglophone and French studies on other subjects in the field of contemporary archaeology. Her publication is intended as an introduction to the field of twentieth-century …read more