1945
A(n) (All-)European Place of Memory?
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Again and again, there is talk of a European memory culture – sometimes as a product of an identity management guided by a European Union history policy, sometimes as the convergence of national memories. But is a unified memory culture possible? The central place of memory, the year 1945, represents a test. Europe’s national societies remember this date very differently, even contradictorily. But memory cultures are so fluid that a paradigm change is to be reckoned with at any moment.
(Osteuropa 6/2008, pp. 67–76)