Legacies of Mass Death on East German Soil: Living with Wehrmacht Fallen Soldiers in the Soviet Occupation Zone and GDR
Laura Tradii is a historian and social anthropologist specialising in the cultural history of twentieth century warfare, with a focus on the identification, management and reburial of fallen soldiers in Britain and Germany after the First and Second World Wars. She is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow within the Centre for the History of War, Media, and Society at the University of Kent and her most recent publications include ‘Conflicted Afterlives: Managing Wehrmacht Fallen Soldiers in the Soviet Occupation Zone and GDR’, Journal of Contemporary History (2023) and ‘“Everywhere” and “on the spot”: locality and attachments to the fallen “out of place” in contemporary rural Germany’, History and Anthropology (2022). She is currently writing a book on the management and burial of WW2 soldiers in the Soviet Occupation Zone and German Democratic Republic.
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