break any lines of continuity with its military and autocratic past. Fellow historian Martin Sabrow also voiced his skepticism, but framed his opinion more on the current state of Germany's memory culture: “today's memory culture in Germany is much more
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In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 111–131 (21 total)
Peenemünde Contested
Remembering Second World War Technologies in Rural East Germany from 1984 to 1992
Daniel Brandau
periods that appeared meaningful to their own troubled biographies, which included not only the National Socialist but also the German Democratic Republic (GDR) period. Activism in and for regional memory culture was particularly diverse in Peenemünde. The
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- Research Article
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- 98–127 (30 total)
Freed from Sadness and Fear
Politics, COVID-19, and the New Germany
Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp
elsewhere. His address captured some of the remarkable changes in Germany's memory culture over the past 25 years while affirming the self-consciously deliberative and democratic ethos of contemporary German politics. Steinmeier began with remembrance of
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- Research Article
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- 86–110 (25 total)
Christian Gudehus
This article is based on the findings of an empirical study that is being conducted in Austria, Poland, and Germany. The material consists of a total of sixty group discussions with families, people of different age groups, as well as individuals dealing professionally with history and memory, including historians, teachers, politicians, journalists, displaced persons, and Jewish communities. Even if there are differences within every country, one clearly can observe dominant country-specific ways of speaking about the past. The German discourse could be described as a meta-narrative. Germans do not speak mainly about the past itself, but rather about how it should or should not be represented. The narrations are highly skeptical and unheroic. By contrast, the Polish discourse is almost devoid of skeptical narratives. Notions such as “historical truth,” “national pride” and “national history” were dominant in the discussions. The article concludes by noting that even though the modes of narrating the past are different in Germany and Poland, its function remains untouched: the past is always a resource for the construction of coherence and meaning.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 99–112 (13 total)
Empowering Critical Memory Consciousness in Education
The Example of 22 July 2011 in Norway
Alexandre Dessingué and Ketil Knutsen
significant symbolic or speech actions, or as things we “do” to history in order to meet certain needs or functions. 22 This does not mean that history and memories can be understood synonymously. History does, admittedly, affect our memory culture, but
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 95–113 (19 total)
To Bear Witness After the Era of the Witness
The Projects of Christophe Boltanski and Ivan Jablonka
Donald Reid
in France. He grew up and lives today in what he calls a society marked by a memory culture in which one is asked to reflect on and pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust. 3 But, he recognizes, this “duty to remember” can be stifling, a matter of
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 76–91 (16 total)
History between Red Brackets
The Cold War in History Museums around the Baltic Sea
Johan Hegardt
project entitled “Art, Culture and Conflict: Transformations of Museums and Memory Culture around the Baltic Sea after 1989,” which was financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden. This project also
Susanne Baackmann
fascism) based on Chancellor Kohl's famous adage of the “mercy of a late birth” as justification for normalizing German national identity in alliance with Western powers, it questions the entire edifice upon which Germany's official memory culture is built
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 37–55 (19 total)
Introduction
Remembering the Second World War in Post-Soviet Educational Media
Barbara Christophe
political and cultural significance of the single most important affair in post-Soviet memory cultures—a term used here explicitly in order to avoid invoking the idea of a culturally coherent social space, but rather to denote all the different forms and
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–12 (12 total)
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Tiziana Soverino, Evgenia Mesaritou, Thomas M. Wilson, Steve Byrne, Dino Vukušić, Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Eva-Maria Walther, and Eva Schwab
MigrantInnen in Deutschland [That Is So typically Persian! A Study of Diasporic Memory Cultures Exemplified by Second-Generation Iranian Migrants in Germany] (Münster: Waxman), 332 pp., €39.90, ISBN 9783830936732. Out of five million Iranians living abroad
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Book Reviews
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- 114–133 (20 total)