The publication takes a discourse-grammatical perspective to address discourses about destruction in the Second World War and post-war reconstruction in the cities of Mannheim, Paderborn, and Bremen from 1945 to 2016. The basic concept is that not only slogans but also unnoticed figures of speech such as in rubble and ashes and were the victims of destruction and the rebuilding took place shape our relationship to history.

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Nicole M. Wilk, Paderborn University, Germany.