Sabine Mannitz

Imagine all the people

Peace requires transnational remembrance

Abstract

Across the world countries celebrate annual Remembrance Days to remember the dead of their armed forces in past and ongoing conflicts. Germany does so too on the National Day of Mourning, but with an unusual formula of remembering the victims of violence and war of all nations. The purpose is to remind the living of the preciousness of peace rather than of any great mission of the own nation. This is due to Germany's responsibility for the war of extermination and the Shoah. While the broad mourning formula is not uncontested, perspectives which run across national collectives are indeed promising ways to build a shared culture of peace.

Bibliographic record

Mannitz, Sabine (2019): Imagine all the people. Peace requires transnational remembrance, PRIF Spotlight 13/2019, Frankfurt/M.

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