Functional Specificity of the Guidebook to the Concentration Camp Memorial

This article forms part of series comparative studies dealing with tourist guidebooks to the memorials various former concentration camps in Germany published years ago during GDR era and today. The authors substantiate need consider camp memorial guidebook as an independent kind genre identifying both functions for inappropriate underlying expand usual functionality guidebook. A new group has been introduced. These are so-called places traumatic memory Nazi can be considered. form homogeneous among a vast variety guidebooks.