DOI Artikel:
Torbus, Tomasz: Krössinsee (zachodniopomorski Złocieniec‑Budowo) i inne narodowosocjalistyczne „zamki zakonne”. Budowa – funkcja – kostium stylowy
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.52466#0132
Tomasz new uses of the Ordensburg structures and facilities. The designation of the former
Torbus NS training centres as memoriał sites, in which the juncture between Ordensburgen
and the NS crimes finds physical expression, will presumably be the sole way to ensure
their continued existence. Between 1939 and 1940, approximately 260 Ordensjunkers
(the name derived from ‘Junker’: a nobleman from the landed class) were sent from
Króssinsee on military assignment to the area of Poznań (‘Warthegau’), from where up
to a half a million Poles and Jews were expelled to the Government General. Further
documentation shows the involvement of the Ordensjunkers in the Holocaust during
1941 in the occupied Soviet territories. In making the buildings of the Ordensburgen
accessible to the public, while at the same time laying bare the reality behind the mys-
tiąue, it seems necessary to proceed on a different path than that which has been taken
up to now ‘Domesticating’ the testimonies of a terror regime has been expressed in ways
such as the oversized colourful pillows for visitor seating at the Wewelsburg Castle or
the garish plastic forms in Vogelsang. Thus, in addition to taking stock of the buildings
and making a case for their preservation, the serious ąuestion that must be asked is
how to deal with this kind of legacy.
(translated by Sharon Nemeth)
Torbus NS training centres as memoriał sites, in which the juncture between Ordensburgen
and the NS crimes finds physical expression, will presumably be the sole way to ensure
their continued existence. Between 1939 and 1940, approximately 260 Ordensjunkers
(the name derived from ‘Junker’: a nobleman from the landed class) were sent from
Króssinsee on military assignment to the area of Poznań (‘Warthegau’), from where up
to a half a million Poles and Jews were expelled to the Government General. Further
documentation shows the involvement of the Ordensjunkers in the Holocaust during
1941 in the occupied Soviet territories. In making the buildings of the Ordensburgen
accessible to the public, while at the same time laying bare the reality behind the mys-
tiąue, it seems necessary to proceed on a different path than that which has been taken
up to now ‘Domesticating’ the testimonies of a terror regime has been expressed in ways
such as the oversized colourful pillows for visitor seating at the Wewelsburg Castle or
the garish plastic forms in Vogelsang. Thus, in addition to taking stock of the buildings
and making a case for their preservation, the serious ąuestion that must be asked is
how to deal with this kind of legacy.
(translated by Sharon Nemeth)