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Pod ciężarem niemieckiej historii. Generacja wnuków wobec narodowosocjalistycznej przeszłości swych rodzin – próba charakterystyki trendów i postaw
The Burden of German History

Author(s): Katarzyna Jedynakiewicz-Mróz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: the grandchildren of the Nazi Perpetrators; the overcoming of the Nazi past

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to describe the contemporary forms of the overcoming of the Nazi Past by the generation of the grandchildren. The presentation is based on the newest publications of the representatives of this group, as well as on the studies of the specialists. The first part of the article shows the defensive mechanisms accompanying the process of confrontation with the family part of the Nazi history. The second one presents the forms of an active and critical confrontation with the Nazi past of the generation of the grandparents, using the example of the six representatives of their grandchildren.

  • Issue Year: 12/2015
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 257-270
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish