GER 1790 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Sophie Scholl, Susan Sontag, Collective Memory
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Parliamentary democracy (parliament as a site of memory?) Hitler (hitler in memory film: er ist wieder da ) Maurice halbwachs (a french sociologist) is seen as the father of memory studies. Memory is framed as much by the present as by the past. It is impossible for individuals to remember coherently outside of their social context. Collective memory refers to a shared pool of memories and knowledge about the past of a particular group, with significant impact on that group"s identity. Collective vs individual -> all memory is individual, unreproducible -- it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds. - susan sontag (2003) National socialism, nazis, the holocaust, and ww2; the nazi past. The first world war; the commemoration of german victims.
