Excavating Tempelhof airfield: objects of memory and the politics of absence

摘要: Seeking to critically engage with German post-war politics of memory through a study material culture, this paper examines the political implications absence for archaeological work. More specifically, it confronts problem lacuna archive Holocaust and explores how we can productively archival absences that animate present. Introducing first results from excavations at former forced labour camp Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, Germany, I discuss archaeology, by investigating what remains after Holocaust, may allow us manifest absence, loss historical silence. Analysing role objects storytelling history writing, also lay out tender task an Nazi past is, pointing where our work risk misappropriate history.