Den Zweiten Weltkrieg erinnern: Der (post-)jugoslawische Raum
Remembering the Second World War in (Post-)Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The short essay outlines some hypothesis in order to mark the shifts, but even more so the continuities in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cultures of remembrance. In the first part, which focuses on the practices and cultures of war memory in socialist Yugoslavia, the main arguments of the authors’ monograph – published a decade ago – are summarized, including references to more recent research results. In the second part, which deals with the post-Yugoslav era, the contribution summarizes contemporary developments in the culture and politics of memory. The essay argues that the development of exclusive victim identities has prevented to this day a constructive understanding of the war’s legacies in this region in the 20th century.

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