The Holocaust and Collective Memory in Scandinavia: the Danish case
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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.
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36(5)
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570-586
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Link to article (paywalled), The Holocaust and Collective Memory in Scandinavia: the Danish case
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The Holocaust and Collective Memory in Scandinavia: the Danish case. 2011: 570-586. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/03468755.2011.625489
