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30 - History
University of Essex
Britain’s Finest Hour: Bergen-Belsen in der britischen Erinnerungslandschaft – eine Annäherung’ [Bergen-Belsen in the British Memory Landscape: an Approach]
The article traces the development of the place that Bergen-Belsen occupied in the British memory landscape from the liberation of the concentration camp by the British on 15 April 1945 until today. From being a specific locality of Nazi crimes, Bergen-Belsen increasingly became an imagined space, in line with the evolution of Holocaust discourses in Britain. It was at times deracinated, at other times imagined as almost exclusively Jewish, and often universalised as a place of 'evil' over which the British triumphed which was invoked again in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and in public entertainment until today.
