Language:
English
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
S: I. M. O. N.
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2016) 4-23
Keywords:
Fédération internationale des résistants
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Reparations
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World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements
Abstract:
This paper offers an analysis of the activities of the communist-dominated Federation Internationale des Resistants (International Federation of Resistance Movements, FIR), the interational umbrella organisation of associations of victims of Nazi persecution from both Eastern and Western Europe between the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this time, the collapse of the Soviet Bloc led to a deep crisis for the Eastern European organisations like the Polish Zwiazek Bojownikow o Wolnosc i Demokracje (Union of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy) representing the former anti-fascist resistance fighters and political prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, which had been part of the communist power apparatus, and therefore of FIR. The organisation, which had been mired in growing financial difficulties for at least two decades, then lost much of its influence and of its potential to spread its message among the public. Nevertheless, FIR tried to maintain its activities with a special focus on dealing with right-wing extremism, the preservation of the rights and pensions of former resistance fighters, a commitment to peace and disarmament, as well as to the politics of memory.
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