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VOKIETIJOS KALTĖ IR LIETUVIŠKA GĖDA
GERMAN GUILT AND LITHUANIAN SHAME

Author(s): Šarūnas Liekis
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Political history, Studies in violence and power, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: guilt; shame; politics; history; memory; Holocaust; Lithuania; Germany;

Summary/Abstract: The social and political pluralism of the Western world, disseminating universal concepts of human rights and justice, strengthens a cultural identity oriented toward acknowledgment of guilt. In a global world, there are efforts to repair damages inflicted by war and its consequences through the fostering and institutionalization of guilt feelings. Lithuanians attempted to avoid talking about the Holocaust, an avoidance related to the dominance of felt shame in the Lithuanian cultural milieu. The situation started to change with an institutionalization of Holocaust memory when Lithuania underwent ever closer integration into a Western ideological and institutional framework and accepted new standards of cultural behavior.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 151-160
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Lithuanian
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