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Nearly 70 years after its end, World War II remains a compelling reference point for questions of self-definition and cultural identity. The war has become a laboratory within which various versions of past events can be re-shown and re-told, using new, often politically motivated perspectives, but also incorporating pop-cultural and media discourses. Suggestive examples from recent years include on the one hand, the German miniseries Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Generation War, 2013), and on the other, Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds (2009).
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Kobielska, M. (2016). Endless aftershock. The Katyń Massacre in Contemporary Polish Culture. In: Leese, P., Crouthamel, J. (eds) Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33470-7_9
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