POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Timothy D. Snyder, Waar, Non-Refoulement
4 Nov 2016
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Judt: the past is another country: myth and memory in postwar europe. I shall suggest that the ways in which the official versions of the war and postwar era have unraveled in recent years are indicative of unresolved problems which lie at the center of the present continental crisis. Most of occupired europe either collaborated with the occupying force (minority) or accepted with resignation and equanimity the presence and activities of german force (majority). Fifty years after the catastrophe, europe understands itself more than ever as a common project, yet it is far from achieving a comprehensive analysis of the years immediately following the second world war. The memory of the period is incomplete and provincial, if it is not entirely lost in repression or nostalgia. From the end of the second world war until the revolutions of 1989, the frontiers of.
