Forgetting Hiroshima, remembering Auschwitz
Tales of two exhibits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481632 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-26 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513615592977 |
| OpenAlex | W1932041178 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper uses two museum exhibitions to raise questions about how Hiroshima and Auschwitz are coped with in the present. The stake of the paper is to examine how it has been possible for different polities to come to terms with criminal pasts that should cause shame and guilt. The criminality of Auschwitz is established, but not that of Hiroshima. In the first instance, then, the paper establishes the extent to which the justifications for the bombing of Hiroshima were and remain controversial. The second part of the paper compares debates around two exhibitions: the Hiroshima exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC and the exhibition 'Extermination War: Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941-44' which travelled through Germany and Austria in the late 1990s
Art · Art history · Cognitive psychology · Criminology · Exhibition · Forgetting · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Sociology · The Holocaust · Visual arts · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |