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oapen-20.500.12657-272972021-11-12T16:02:13Z Veterans, Victims, and Memory Wawrzyniak, Joanna Communism Communist Memory Poland Politics Second Survivors The Politics of Memory Veterans Victims Wawrzyniak World bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLX 21st century history: from c 2000 - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established. 2019-01-10 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2019-01-10 03:00:33 2020-04-01T11:48:23Z 2020-04-01T11:48:23Z 2015-12-11 book 1002715 OCN: 1082949370 9783653996814;9783631640494 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27297 eng Studies in Contemporary History application/pdf n/a 1002715.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/978-3-653-02441-8 10.3726/978-3-653-02441-8 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783653996814;9783631640494 4 259 Bern open access
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In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established.
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