Keywords
Holocaust, Muslims, Germany
Abstract
As early as 1995, James E. Young, referring to the “social effects of public memorial spaces” (p.20) in Germany, stated that “Holocaust memorial work in Germany today remains a tortured, self-reflective, even paralyzing preoccupation.” (p.21) He continues with a series of questions: “How does a state recite, much less commemorate, the litany of its misdeeds, making them part of its reason for being? Under what memorial aegis, whose rules, does a nation remember its own barbarity? Where is the tradition for memorial mea culpa, when combined remembrance and self-indictment seem so hopelessly at odds?” (p.22)
Recommended Citation
Gunther, Stefan
(2024)
"Esra Özyürek. Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory & Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany,"
Comparative Civilizations Review: Vol. 90:
No.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol90/iss1/12
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