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In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established.
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Keywords
- 21st century history: from c 2000 -
- Ancient History
- anthropology
- Communism
- communist
- Cultural Studies
- European History
- General and world history
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- Memory
- Philosophy
- Poland
- Politics
- Psychology
- Second
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Sociology & anthropology
- Survivors
- The Politics of Memory
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- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
- Veterans
- victims
- Wawrzyniak
- world
- World war, 1939-1945, poland
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DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-02441-8Editions
