The War that Never Ends: The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk

The War that Never Ends: The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk
ISBN-10
3110655039
ISBN-13
9783110655032
Series
The War That Never Ends
Category
History
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2019-10-08
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Author
Paweł Machcewicz

Description

The story of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk epitomizes one of the most important and dramatic clashes in the European culture of memory and public history in last decades. The museum became the arch-enemy for the nationalist right-wing as “cosmopolitan”, “pseudo-universalistic”, “pacifistic” and “not Polish enough”. Paweł Machcewicz, historian and museum`s founding director, was removed from his position by the Law and Justice government immediately after opening the museum to the public. In his book he presents this story as a part of cultural wars that tear apart not only Poland but also many countries in Europe and on other continents.

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