Will the Germans Ever Be Forgiven? Memories of the Second World War Four Generations Later

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ID23711713
AuthorsLouis Oppenheimer, Ilse Hakvoort (0000-0002-0824-9949)
Year2003
Pages94-103
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRole of Memory in Ethnic Conflict (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781403919823_6
OpenAlexW1568084334
Open LibraryOL22127276M
ISBN9781403919823
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In general, memory is perceived as the mental faculty that permits individuals to acquire, retain and retrieve knowledge related to their own personal experiences and forms an important part of individuals’ identities. The concept of collective memory involves the assumption that both groups and societies have memories (Halbwachs, 1950/1968) and subsequently, that the collective memory of a society (for example, represented by museums and memorials) forms an important part of a society’s culture. A relation is assumed between collective and individual or personal memory by which individuals’ memories of events may conflict with the larger society’s representations of the same events, and by which different subgroups within a diverse society may represent or remember common experiences differently. The purpose of the present study is to discuss the relationship between collective and personal memory and attitudes towards others on the basis of studies conducted with Dutch children and adolescents. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Collective memory · Political science · Relation (database) · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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