“World Champions in Remembrance” with Blinders
The Late Look at the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
For a long time after the Second World War, German war crimes – in particular, the attempt to exterminate the Jews of Eastern Europe – were not a topic of discussion in the German public, although there would have been plenty of opportunities to take note of them. In the post-war period, there were several occasions to draw attention to the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Remembrance of the war crimes in Eastern Europe and of the Shoah has changed. To this day, however, Eastern Europe is perceived rather as a mere theatre of war. The German public has yet to adopt an Eastern European perspective on these crimes of the century.
(Osteuropa 1-3/2025, pp. 191–210)