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Memorial Narratives of WWII Partisans and Genocide in Belarus

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2009
The memory of WWII always played an important role in Belarus, which was characterized as a “Partisan Republic” during the Soviet time. Soviet historiography and memorial narrative emphasized the heroics of the resistance to fascism and allowed only a description of the crimes of the Nazis.
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Fiction as Fact: False Memories of WWII in the Philippines

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 2011
This book is a personal account of abuse to the author and her mother by the Japanese during World War II in the Philippines. It covers the author’s childhood, concentrating on slightly more than three years ending when she was 11. During this period, Ms.
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Escaping War Crime Reflections of WWII: Japan’s Postwar Narratives through the Lens of Imperial Preservation, Remnants of Militarism, and Education

Exploring Science Academic Conference Series
This article presents systematic research regarding the factors that led to Japan’s evasion of war crime after WWII. There are three major factors behind such evasion: the preservation of the imperial system, which provided legitimacy and a symbolic ...
Qiang Chen
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‘A Rustling Sound’: Voices of WWII Italian Detainees from The Multilingual Archive of Australia

Historical Studies
National archives, libraries, and museums both expose and, directly or indirectly, collude with the military, legal, political, and rhetorical processes of exclusion that tend to obfuscate people’s subjectivities.
Giorgia Alù
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Zmiyovskaya balka (Rostov-on-Don): Memory of the Holocaust and competition of victims

Urban Folklore and Anthropology
The paper focuses on the memory conflicts surrounding Zmiyovskaya balka in Rostov-on-Don, which became the site of the most mass extermination of Jews on the territory of the RSFSR during the Nazi occupation.
Anna Kirzyuk
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Haunting Images of the Past: WWII Monuments in Post-Communist Bulgaria

Arhivele Totalitarismului
The pivotal role of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the anti-fascist resistance movement and of the Soviet Union in liberating Bulgaria from fascism were the two central pillars of the narrative of the history and memory of Second World War in communist
Aneta Mihaylova
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Voicing past and present uncertainties. The relocation of a Soviet WWII memorial and the politics of memory in Estonia

2011
18 p.
Melchior, I.L.J., Visser, A.
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Embracing the Complexity of Historical Memory: Beyond Collective Pride and Shame

Advances in Education, Humanities and Social Science Research
This study challenges the rigid "pride-shame" binary often used to frame national historical memory, arguing these extreme emotions overlook history’s inherent complexity.
Liu Chen
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Memory, History, and Displacement: Modern Subjectivity in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor Trilogy

Christianity & Literature
:This article begins by analyzing Waugh’s treatment of the entry of “displaced persons” into the vernacular, arguing that WWII’s displacements and the struggles to survive that necessitated them are, for Waugh, the most grotesque consequences of ...
Michael J. Horacki
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Displacement and placemaking: memories of the plight of WWII refugees in Vilar Formoso, Portugal.

2020
On the issue of Displacement and placemaking and selectivity of memories and narratives of WWII in Portugal by using Vilar Formoso's Museum as a case study.
De Brito, MP, Sol, H.
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