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The use and abuse of memory : interpreting World War II in contemporary European politics
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- Creator
- Christian Karner and Bram Mertens, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781412851947, 1412851947
- OCLC
- ocn828265110
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : memories and analogies of World War II / Christian Karner and Bram Mertens -- Genocide memorialization and the Europeanization of Europe / Henning Grunwald -- Appeasement analogies in British parliamentary debates preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq / Joseph Burridge -- How deeply rooted is the commitment to "never again"? : Dick Bengtsson's swastikas and European memory culture / Tanja Schult -- Cultural memories of German suffering during the Second World War : an inability not to mourn? / Karl Wilds -- From perpetrators to victims and back again : the long shadow of the Second World War in Belgium / Bram Mertens -- L'histoire bling-bling : Nicolas Sarkozy and the historians / Paul Smith -- The pasts of the present : World War II memories and the construction of political legitimacy in post-cold war Italy / Bjorn Thomassen and Rosario Forlenza -- "The Nazis strike again" : the concept of "the German enemy", party strategies and mass perceptions under the prism of the Greek economic crisis / Zinovia Lialiouti and Giorgos Bithymitris -- Who were the anti-fascists? : divergent interpretations of WWII in contemporary post-Yugoslav history textbooks / Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc and Tamara Pavasovic Trot -- Multiple dimensions and discursive contests in Austria's "mythscape" / Christian Karner -- World War II in discourses of national identification in Poland : an intergenerational perspective / Anna Duszak -- From the "re-unification of the Ukrainian lands" to "Soviet occupation" : the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in the Ukrainian political memory / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- "Often very harmful things start out with things that are very harmless" : European reflections on guilt and innocence inspired by art about the Holocaust in the 1990s / Diana I. Popescu -- Epilogue / Christian Karner and Bram Mertens