The German-French journalist Géraldine Black has made a lot of. You want to give “Europe and its roots, trying to free the Memory, to snatch from him.” The memory-free, the nationalists and right-wing populists, with their historical revisionism in Europe is on the rise. The Displace and Distort opposes Black with your book, a plea for Historical analysis and memory work. You linked to “The Memory of your family” history with the historical events. Your focus is on the role of the follower. She tells of German and French grandparents, especially grandfathers. One of them was an entrepreneur in Mannheim, he benefited from the “Aryanization” of a Jewish operation. The other was a gendarme under Vichy.
Impressively, the letter exchange after the war between your German grandfather, Karl Black, and the former Jewish owner of his company, Julius Löbmann. This had survived the Holocaust, unlike his wife and children. Löbmann called for reparations for the forced sale of his company. Black’ refusal to makes the example of an Individual experience, how hard the Federal Republican society fact, after the war in order to take responsibility for done wrong. Black is here, which is good and depressing at the same time, the sources speak for themselves, the exchange of letters between your grandfather and Löbmann, as well as its lawyer. Sometimes, but she is also trying to make their work more vivid and imagined the feelings and Gestures of their protagonists. The effect is cheesy, pretentious.
Sometimes there is a lack of depth and accuracy
“Memory-less” biased thematically a wide arc. Black only the lives of their German and French ancestors, and the family Löbmann with a historical overview of the Nazi-not connecting-time and the Vichy Regime. They also investigated how the processing of one’s own history, such as the work of remembrance in Germany and France after the Second world war and still is. And it sheds light on the current Situation in Italy and Austria, with their strong populist movements and a delayed, less pronounced history workup.
Geraldine Black was born to draw, in 1974, in Strasbourg photo: Mathias Bothor
The project of Geraldine Black, a comprehensive picture of the European reprocessing of fascism, is honorable. Sometimes, however, your designs depth and accuracy missing. The historical Overview is often remarkably flat. Nevertheless, The Memory is “” a powerful, must-have appeal – especially in times when politicians, such as Alexander Gauland, Hitler and the Nazis call a “bird shit” in German history.
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Geraldine Black: The Memory. Memories of a European. From the French by Christian Ruzicska. Secession Verlag, Zurich 2018. 445 pages, 28 €.
