Introduction
Although almost all of us are too young to remember anything of the 1940s, we are nevertheless condemned to live in memory cultures that begin with the Second World War and its victims. Historians, especially those who take as their subjects Germany and Russia and the lands between, must somehow negotiate the slippery territory between memory cultures and historical scholarship. One approach is to treat the memory cultures themselves as an object of study, as do Alexandra Goujon and David Marples in the essays published here. [...]
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