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Biberach and Bad Wurzach are two communities linked by the tragedy of war to the two largest British Channel Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. Although the background story of the two internment camps in the two small towns which are only 30 km apart is almost identical, there are some major differences in the situation of the camps and the postwar developments that led to the present differences in the atmosphere of the relationship between former internees and the places of their internment. The relationships between past physical and social conditions and present-day perceptions of an interlocked heritage reveal the complex ways in which individual and social memories are created, lost, and recreated, as understood by avocational researchers linked to some of the communities involved.
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Rothenhäusler, G., Adler, R. (2013). A Tale of Two Towns: Heritage and Memory of Civilian Internment in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 1942–2012. In: Mytum, H., Carr, G. (eds) Prisoners of War. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4166-3_12
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