Waffen-SS veterans and their sites of memory today

Werther, Steffen; Hurd, Madeleine

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“…41 Since the end of the war, and to the present day, the transnationalization of fascist martyrs has developed in parallel with the de-territorialization of fascism and the adaptation of its surviving nostalgic groupuscules to diverse sociocultural ecosystems at a global level. 42 With the transnationalization of the memorial activities of former Nazi collaborators from various countries, 43 and the contingent numeric growth of neo-fascist groups, the second half of the twentieth century was marked by an increased transnational circulation of fascist martyrs and their establishment as 'role models' and icons of fascism on a global scale. 44 The persistency of this phenomenon obliges us to dig into its historical roots, to look at what engendered it and to understand what made it prosperous and prolific in certain times and not in others.…”

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Transnationalizing fascist martyrs: an entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41

Zavatti

2022

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This article analyses the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin, two Romanian Legionary movement volunteers who died while fighting for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, as an entangled history of Romanian and Spanish fascisms. The commemoration practices and narratives recounted in the Spanish and Romanian newspapers and archival sources from the period 1937–41 show that commemorating foreign ideological peers and appropriating symbolic elements of foreign fascisms in order to memorialize fallen comrades served as resources for legitimizing the struggle against domestic competitors. Although the totalitarian ambitions of Spanish and Romanian fascists remained unfulfilled, the Spanish-Romanian entanglement contributed to consolidating Moţa and Marin as martyrs of transnational fascism.

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Transnationalizing fascist martyrs: an entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41

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World War II Memory and Contested Commemorations in Europe and Russia

Yoder

2023

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Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations. Using a comparative, conceptually original approach, the book identifies the actors who manipulate memory surrounding wartime anniversaries, such as the bombing of Dresden and ceremonies to honor fallen soldiers and fascist collaborators. The cases of memory contestation span three geographic regions, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia, recognizing that each developed distinctive interpretations of the war and different patterns of memory politics. This empirically rich study reveals the grievances that motivate memory challengers and their strategies for shaping the commemoration discourses and rituals. The memory challengers’ toolkit includes varieties of emotional manipulation, subtle distortion, revisionism, and full-scale denial. The study finds that, while there are differences in context and strategy across cases and regions, there are also areas of convergence. Moreover, a memory challenge in one country can spill over into others with serious consequences for foreign relations. While Contested Commemorations deals with debates and narratives about events in the last century, its focus is on power, persuasion, and identity in the present.

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Waffen-SS veterans and their sites of memory today

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Transnationalizing fascist martyrs: an entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41

Transnationalizing fascist martyrs: an entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41

World War II Memory and Contested Commemorations in Europe and Russia

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