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Three Aspects of Dealing with the Past: European Experience

This chapter addresses the phenomenon of dealing with the past in contemporary Europe from a political science perspective and the analytical approaches common in this discipline. It divides the process of dealing with the past into three general categories. The first category or aspect includes politics towards the past or politics of the past (Vergangenheitspolitik) with an emphasis on the German experience after the Second World War and National Socialism. The second category implies transitional justice, as derived from the example of East Germany (GDR) and the processes of lustration in countries such as Poland and Albania. The third aspect includes the politics of culture and the culture of remembrance. Finally, an analysis of the Croatian example is given, accompanied with cross-references to Germany and the “historians’ quarrel” (Historikerstreit).

dealing with the past, politics of the past, Historikerstreit, transitional justice, lustration, culture of remembrance

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