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When the Past Scorns the Present:: Memory and Meaning of Bleiburg and Jasenovac in Contemporary Croatia
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History, The Hugo Valentin Centre.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8494-9114
2020 (English)In: Memories in Conflict:: Historical Trauma, Collective Memory and Justice Since 1989 / [ed] Tomislav Dulić, Uppsala: Historiska institutionen , 2020, p. 57-76Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This paper analyzes the situation in post-socialist Croatia in its relation to the collective memory about Jasenovac and Bleiburg, two lieux de mémoire connected to the Second World War history and the fascist Ustaša regime in the wartime Independent State of Croatia. It examines how actors, mostly conservative-leaning academic and popular knowledge-production, tend to portray the national "in-group" as a "victim nation". Due to the problematic relation to the wartime fascist state, some revisionists have sought to "universalize" genocide generally and the Holocaust in particular. By referring to the atrocious behavior of the "Other", political actors and academics have tried to spread the blame evenly among fascists, communists, and nationalists, thus reducing the culpability of the Ustašas for their participation in the Holocaust.

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Uppsala: Historiska institutionen , 2020. p. 57-76
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Opuscula historica Upsaliensia, ISSN 0284-8783 ; 59
Keywords [en]
Croatia, fascism, memory, Jasenovac, Bleiburg
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History
Research subject
History
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-432917ISBN: 978-91-984509-4-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-432917DiVA, id: diva2:1521767
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Swedish Research Council, 2018-02271Available from: 2021-01-25 Created: 2021-01-25 Last updated: 2022-08-25

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