Language:
German
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 235-255
Keywords:
Kommounistiko Komma Helladas
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Collective memory
Abstract:
The article examines the status of the Holocaust in the memories of Greek Communists concerning World War II. Based on real aid and rescue operations conducted by Greek communist partisans on behalf of persecuted Jews or Jews threatened with deportation during the German occupation, the article tries to explain the conspicuous disappearance of these activities within postwar memory. A look at the peculiarities of the Greek memory landscape reveals that the remembrance of the Jewish fate primarily fell victim to coming to terms with its own past, or more precisely: the role of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in the resistance against the German occupation, the search for the reasons for its defeat in the Greek Civil War, and the persecution of party members by the anti-communist postwar state. In addition, traditional anti-Jewish attitudes rooted in Greek orthodoxy, the economic rivalry between Greek and Jewish population groups dating back to the Ottoman Empire, and the Greek origin of the term “Holocaust” obscured the perception of the Jewish fate.
DOI:
10.13109/9783666317361.235
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