TY - JOUR
T1 - The Holocaust and Collective Memory in Scandinavia
T2 - The Danish Case
AU - Lammers, Karl Christian
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - The annihilation of the European Jews, the Holocaust, had in ensuing decades occupied a different place in the collective memory of Scandinavian countries than in other parts of former Nazi dominated Europe. This was due to most Scandinavian Jews, and especially Danish Jews, being rescued from deportation and extermination in the Nazi extermination camps. This made the rescue of the Jews central to the collective memory of the German occupation, and it might explain why the Holocaust was long concealed behind this master narrative. In more recent years, historical research has advanced a more nuanced view of the Danish rescue in October 1943.
AB - The annihilation of the European Jews, the Holocaust, had in ensuing decades occupied a different place in the collective memory of Scandinavian countries than in other parts of former Nazi dominated Europe. This was due to most Scandinavian Jews, and especially Danish Jews, being rescued from deportation and extermination in the Nazi extermination camps. This made the rescue of the Jews central to the collective memory of the German occupation, and it might explain why the Holocaust was long concealed behind this master narrative. In more recent years, historical research has advanced a more nuanced view of the Danish rescue in October 1943.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Historie
KW - holocaust
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0346-8755
VL - 36
SP - 570
EP - 586
JO - Scandinavian Journal of History
JF - Scandinavian Journal of History
IS - 5
ER -