Review: <i>Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers</i>, by Rumiko Handa
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Abstract
Book Review| November 01 2021 Review: Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers, by Rumiko Handa Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers by Rumiko Handa. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. xi + 210 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliographies, index; clothbound, $128.00; paperback, $44.95; eBook, $40.45. Robert Jan van Pelt Robert Jan van Pelt University of Waterloo, Canada Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2021) 43 (4): 153–155. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.4.153 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Robert Jan van Pelt; Review: Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers, by Rumiko Handa. The Public Historian 1 November 2021; 43 (4): 153–155. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.4.153 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search One of the gratifying dimensions of my academic study of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust is the way my work is of interest to the general public. An added benefit is the dialogue with middle and high school teachers charged with providing young people with the most trustworthy and effective knowledge under, at times, challenging conditions created by Holocaust denial and distortion. I have been for over twenty years an enthusiastic participant of programs that bring professors and teachers together in courses, including a two-week study tour through Central Europe. We visit the remains of Nazi-imposed ghettos as well as Nazi concentration and extermination camps, and spend a considerable time at three well-endowed, excellently run documentation centers that are located on historic sites in Munich, Nuremberg, and Berlin. De facto museums of Nazism, they are not designated as such as the word “museum” is typically associated with a legacy that... You do not currently have access to this content.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.036 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".