“Excess of Forgetting and Excess of Memory” in Polish, German and Austrian Narratives on World War II
“Excess of Forgetting and Excess of Memory” in Polish, German and Austrian Narratives on World War II

Summary/Abstract: In his extraordinary book titled Memory, History, Forgetting, Paul Ricoeur writes thus: “I am deeply troubled by the disturbing spectacle of the excess of memory in some places and the excess of forgetting elsewhere”. The events of World War II affected the Polish and the German nations in completely different ways. As perpetrators of the tragedy, the Germans were to some extent confronted with war crimes (the Nuremberg Trials, the Frankfurt Trial, the Düsseldorf Trial). But have the war crimes and the mechanisms of functioning of the Third Reich become common knowledge?

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