Outsider, Bystander, Insider. The Second World War, the Holocaust and Uses of the Past in Sweden

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Abstract

One way to analyze the twists and turns in Swedish history politics regarding the Second World War and its legacy is to turn to a typol-ogy of uses of history. Despite differences in occupations, places, and times, uses of history are often joined together by certainneeds and functions that certain choices of history can provide. In this pa-per, I discuss how the images of the Second World War and the Holo-causthave changed due to the dominance of different uses of history. The Swedish history culture has gone from a combination of school-arly and ideological use of history, based on the concept of small-state realism, via a moral use of history, characterized by critical challenges of the former dominating narrative, to a renewed ideo-logical use of history with moralistic undertones.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHolocaust Remembrance and Representation.
Subtitle of host publicationDocumentation from a Research Conference, SOU 2020:21
EditorsKarin Kvist Geverts
Place of PublicationStockholm
PublisherNorstedts Juridik AB
Pages179-187
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)978-91-38-25044-0
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Apr 15

Publication series

NameStatens offentliga utredningar
Number21
Volume2020
ISSN (Print)0375-250X

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • History

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