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Unacademic academics: Holocaust deniers and trivializers in post-Communist Romania

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The Romanian Academy (and much of the country's historical establishment) is packed with Holocaust deniers and trivializers, many of whom indulge in Holocaust obfuscation against the background of the post-Communist “competitive martyrdom” between the victims of the Holocaust and the Gulag. Quite a few of these deniers and trivializers are also former secret police informers. On closer examination, however, it turns out that explaining the reluctance to face the country's “dark past” as being the independent variable resultant of the post “Romanianization” of the Communist Party and its Securitate is a partial explanation at best. A substantially more convincing one might be provided by scrutinizing the phenomenon as the product of post-mnemonic cultural traumas.

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42(6)

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942-964

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Link to article, Unacademic academics: Holocaust deniers and trivializers in post-Communist Romania

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Shafir, Michael Unacademic academics: Holocaust deniers and trivializers in post-Communist Romania. Nationalities Papers. 2014: 942-964.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/00905992.2014.939619