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AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany - Remembering the International Brigades 1945-1989 (Hardcover, New)
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AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany - Remembering the International Brigades 1945-1989 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering
and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which
eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German
Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject
of a debate which both predated and outlasted the Cold War,
involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists,
writers, and Church activists. Examining these multiple memories
and interpretations of Spain casts new and unexpected light on the
legacy of the Spanish Civil War, and the relationship between
history and memory under state socialism. The ruling Socialist
Unity Party made full use of the antifascist legacy as legitimation
for a non-democratic state. But despite dogged attempts at control
and censorship, the state was unable to silence competing voices.
All over East Germany, International Brigade veterans preserved
their version of events - in letters to each other, in
communications with the party, in discussions with friends and
family around the kitchen table, and in memoirs written for the
'desk drawer'. For younger East Germans, the war retained an
undeniably romantic aura. From their perspective, Spain was a
far-away land to which they were forbidden to travel, the stuff of
camp-fire singalongs and fantasies of adventure. This book dissects
the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of
veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces
left behind by marginalised or politically oppositional groups and
individuals. It is a cultural history of memory under state
socialism, a social history of veteran groups and their
relationship with the state, and a political history of communist
culture. Above all, it is the story of how post-war Europeans came
to terms with the heavy burden of their pre-war past.
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