Contested European Memory: Nationalism, Identity, and the Politics of Remembrance

Dietmar J. Wetzel, MSH Medical School, Hamburg & University of Basel Cover image: Salvador Allende Square, Paris (7th Arrondissement), November 12, 2023, March against anti-Semitism. National Rally elected officials, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella surrounded by journalists. Siren-Com, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. 1. Introduction – Memory in a fragmented Europe1 In an …

EDITORIAL #5

Cover picture: “Aixafem el feixisme” [“Crush Fascism”]. Can BatllĂł, Barcelona. Mural painting and picture by Roc Blackblock. Based on the original picture by Pere CatalĂ  Pic. The work is part of the project “Murs de BitĂ cola” (Log walls) Our Observing Memories magazine has reached its fifth edition. It has been another complex and complicated year …

European Remembrance Policies

Picture: Plenary hall of European parliament in Strasbourg, April 16, 2013 | Ikars, Shutterstock.com   By Markus J. Prutsch, Fellow of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the University of Heidelberg, leader of the international research project Science, Numbers and Politics   Introduction One of the most powerful tools in welding political identity is …