TY - BOOK AU - Wawrzyniak, Joanna AB - In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established. DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-02441-8 ID - OAPEN ID: 1002715 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1082949370 KW - Communism KW - Communist KW - Memory KW - Poland KW - Politics KW - Second KW - Survivors KW - The Politics of Memory KW - Veterans KW - Victims KW - Wawrzyniak KW - World L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/a6c496f1-5147-49b9-b639-7e23c58059aa/1002715.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27297 PB - Peter Lang International Academic Publishers PP - Bern PY - 2015-12-11 SN - 9783653996814;9783631640494 TI - Veterans, Victims, and Memory : The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland ER -