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![]() Therefore, public commemoration of politically motivated violence intersects different discursive elements, leading to multidirectional forms of memory. Motivated by several shocking attacks at the beginning of the new millennium, this commemorative culture evolved in a memory ecology, which was significantly shaped by the prosperity of global Holocaust memory. In recent decades, the experience of non-governmental politically motivated violence became a central element of global memory culture. ![]() Anhand der Wiedergutmachungsverfahren der hannoverschen Konsumgenossenschaft sowie der Pressebetriebe der SPD und KPD diskutiere ich in Anlehnung an Aleida Assmann die hier reflektierten Formen historischen Vergessens und ihre Grenzen im Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen Vergangenheitspolitik, Justiz, wirtschaftlichem Wiederaufbau und Erinnerungskultur. Die Aushandlungsprozesse im Rahmen dieses lange vergessenen Kapitels deutscher Nachkriegsgeschichte reflektieren, wie eng In- und Exklusionen infolge des deutsch-deutschen ‚Kalten Bürgerkriegs‘ mit Vergangenheitsblindheit verwoben waren. Als dann 1948 in Westdeutschland Anträge auf Wiedergutmachung gestellt werden konnten, entbrannte ein erbitterter Kampf um vorhandene Vermögenswerte wie Immobilien, Zeitungsdruckereien oder entsprechende Entschädigungszahlungen. Der NS-Staat eignete sich ihr auf über eine Milliarde Reichsmark geschätztes Vermögen an und setzte es nicht zuletzt für Verfolgung, Propaganda, Kriegsvorbereitung und -wirtschaft ein. Drawing on the analyses of political struggles of war veterans in RENAMO and FMLN over two decades, this study's findings underscore the longue‐durée socio‐political relevance of war veteranship, extending above and beyond reintegration efforts.ġ933 zerschlugen die Nationalsozialisten die deutsche Arbeiterbewegung. ![]() Integral to the political accommodations that shape post‐war societies, war veteranship involves the construction, negotiation and contestation of the societal status of different categories of war veterans. ![]() The article argues that war veteranship is best understood as a distinct type of post‐war citizenship. The concept of war veteranship allows for the exploration of trajectories of former combatants not necessarily, and certainly not exclusively, in terms of reintegration, but rather in relation to the manifold ways in which the status and connections associated with armed group participation may hold currency in the veterans’ lives, and particularly in relation to political processes. The study is based on ethnographic research with former insurgent movements, specifically the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) in Mozambique and the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN) in El Salvador. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.This article proposes the concept of ‘war veteranship’ to better understand war veterans’ positioning in and engagement with post‐war societies and state‐building processes. Photos.Ĭopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. In the saddest irony of all, the authors (all New York City film producers) describe how the African Americans received a warm welcome in England and from German civilians during occupation duty, and as a result were roundly resented by their white comrades in arms. forces in the liberation of Jewish survivors at Dachau and Buchenwald. ![]() unit (but was prevented from making the historic link-up with the Red Army, a ceremony reserved for white troops), and led the way for U.S. The battalion fought farther east than any other U.S. The 761st's military record is impressive. after the war to find that discrimination against them had grown worse. George Patton's Third Army in the WW II European campaigns, then returned to the U.S. Companion volume to an upcoming PBS special, this work recounts the tragic saga of the 761st Tank Battalion, whose African American personnel trained for two years in the racist backwaters of the South, made a major contribution to Gen. ![]()
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