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By Richard Ned Lebow,Wulf Kansteiner,Claudio Fogu,Heidemarie Uhl,Richard J. Golsan

For sixty years, varied teams in Europe have positioned forth interpretations of global battle II and their respective nations’ roles in it in keeping with their very own political and mental wishes. The clash during the last has performed out in assorted arenas, together with movie, memoirs, proceedings, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and kin among neighboring nations. This assortment offers a comparative case learn of ways stories of global battle II were developed and revised in seven eu international locations: France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia). The individuals contain students of historical past, literature, political technological know-how, psychology, and sociology. state by way of state, they convey to the fore the specifics of every nation’s postwar stories in essays commissioned particularly for this quantity. using comparable analytical different types enables comparisons.

An large advent includes reflections at the importance of Europeans’ thoughts of worldwide conflict II and a end presents an research of the results of the members’ findings for reminiscence stories. those items tease out the various findings universal to all seven nations: for example, in every one state, the last decade and a part among the past due Sixties and the mid-1980s was once the interval of such a lot profound swap within the politics of reminiscence. whilst, the members show that Europeans comprehend global struggle II basically via nationwide frames of reference, that are unusually diverse. thoughts of the conflict have vital ramifications for the democratization of vital and jap Europe and the consolidation of the ecu Union. This quantity clarifies how these thoughts are shaped and institutionalized.

Contributors. Claudio Fogu, Richard J. Golsan, Wulf Kansteiner, Richard Ned Lebow, Regula Ludi, Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Heidemarie Uhl, Thomas C. Wolfe

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