Archäologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostbayern /West- und Südböhmen / Fines Transire. Archäologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostbayern /West- und Südböhmen / Oberösterreich

The volume contains a foreword, words of welcome, introduction, and 20 papers on "The Nazi-Period in Archaeology and Monument Preservation". Under the general topic of "The Third Reich in archaeology and monument preservation", the articles deal with the [satellite] concentration camps at Dachau, Flossenbürg, Grunskirchen and Lety, the monumental significance of Nazi relics in Austria and Upper Austria in particular, the history of research and methodological considerations on excavations at Nazi sites in Bavaria, contemporary archaeology and ethical and moral behaviour, evaluation of and questions about finds from former Nazi camps, finds from Obersalzberg, euthanasia victims from Hartheim Castle, the RAD camp at Regensburg-Brandlberg, the Lower Bavarian satellite concentration camps, the Nazi find complex at Plattling, a burial site at Blato, South Bohemia, crash sites of American military planes in eastern Austria, relics of the 1939-45 air war, settlements in the Czech border region deserted after 1945, remains of the Regensburg synagogue and excavations in Dachau and Hebertshausen. The book concludes with a bibliography and an index of participants and authors.