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Some reflections on the practice of commemoration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Ernst Kossmann
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Abstract

Half a century after its end, the Second World War is still an object of enormous public interest. This essay tries to indicate in which respects the present style of commemorating it differs from the ways that former generations shaped the memories they wished to preserve of the historical events that were then thought relevant.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1998 , pp. 269 - 275
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1998

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