Restitution and Memory
The Holocaust in European Political Cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7931971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Diner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Issue | 90 |
| Pages | 36 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3211106 |
| OpenAlex | W2318873802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Let me begin on an apodictic note with the following thesis: Europe, on the fast track to integration, seems more and more to be finding a common unifying memory in the events of World War II, and what is increasingly emerging a posteriori as its core event the Holocaust. Such a commonly shared European memory is not only assuming the salience of an arsenal of remembrance. No, it is also being transformed into a veritable foundational, a seminal event quite comparable to a certain extend to the Reformation or the French Revolution, an event, to which historical memory, as it thickens into a catalog of narrations and values, seems to lead back. The thesis of World War II as an act of political foundation for a future and united Europe may not be so new after all. Quite immediately after 1945, elderly statesmen such as the French Robert Schuman, the German Konrad Adenauer and the Italian Alicide de Gasperi, whose generational memories reached back far before World War I, propagated in due time the idea of Europe as a project for neutralizing so to say the particularistic historical nationalisms on the Continent. Besides the fact, that those three personalities were more or less and because of their age biographically deeply rooted in the 19th century as well in the proper peripheries of their respective nation-states (Schuman was born in Luxembourg and was educated in the 1871 German annexed Alsass; the former mayor of Cologne, Adenauer, made always his distance to the Protestant and Prussian German nation-state felt, and was after 1919 even blamed as a pro-French Rhenish separatist; de Gasperi originated
Political science · Politics · Restitution · The Holocaust · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
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Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory
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On political heritage
The anti-communist moment
The anti-Communist moment
Cosmopolitan memory and national memory conflicts
Challenging the Notion of the East‐West Memory Divide
The limits of memory
Selected bibliography of Memory Studies
Agreeing to Disagree on the Legacies of Recent History
Contested Memories and the Shifting Cognitive Maps of Europe
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |