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32 - Historiographies and Commemorative Practices

from Part III - Intersections: National(ist) Synergies and Tensions with Other Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Categories, Identities, and Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Stefan Berger
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

When the German national parliament, the Bundestag, held a ceremony to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War on 8 May 2015, the historian Heinrich August Winkler was asked to deliver the main address. In his speech, Winkler confirmed the central role of National Socialism and the Holocaust for German national identity. Germany’s responsibility for genocide and war meant, seventy years after the events, a special responsibility toward Israel, and for the states of east-central and eastern Europe, which had suffered most terribly under German occupation, and for the European Union project as a project of peace and reconciliation in a continent where German hypernationalism had brought destruction on a hitherto unprecedented scale.

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Historiographyhistoriansmaster narrativesprofessionalizationideologiestotalitarianismethnicityreligionclassgender
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 682 - 705
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Berger, Stefan, The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).Google Scholar
Berger, Stefan (ed.), Writing the Nation. A Global Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berger, Stefan, and Lorenz, Chris (eds.), The Contested Nation: Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).Google Scholar
Berger, Stefan, and Lorenz, Chris (eds.), Nationalizing the Past: Historians as Nation-Builders in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Google Scholar
Berger, Stefan, Eriksonas, Linas, and Mycock, Andrew (eds.), Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and the Arts (Oxford: Berghahn, 2008).Google Scholar
Evans, R. J. W., and Marchal, G. P. (eds.), The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States: History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frank, Tibor, and Hadler, Frank (eds.), Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Google Scholar
Leerssen, Joep, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Middell, Matthias, and Roura y, Lluis Aulinas, (eds.), Transnational Challenges to National History Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Google Scholar
Porciani, Ilaria, and Lutz, Raphael (eds.), Atlas of European Historiography: The Making of a Profession, 1800–2005 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Porciani, Ilaria, and Tollebeek, Jo (eds.), Setting the Standards: Institutions, Networks and Communities of National Historiography (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Google Scholar

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