The Memory of Europe's Age of Catastrophe 1914-2014

Abstract

War and genocide in the first half of the twentieth century turned much of Europe into a graveyard. In the cultural history of the aftermath came the question where the bodies were buried, at times literally, but often metaphorically. What would be the location of the experience of mass death in the subsequent life of society? Historians have used 'memory' to designate this struggle over the past's meaning. However, the term can mean very different actions and practices. Show more