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Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Cultural Memory of Bleiburg
This article provides a preliminary overview of the perceptions of Bleiburg among Croats and Bosniaks in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as its role in the overall construction of cultural memory in this deeply divided post-Yugoslav state. The author explores how the remembrance of the Second World War in socialist Yugoslavia fragmented and was replaced by new, nationalist narratives among Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks. The memory of Bleiburg plays a central role in the victimization narrative among Bosnian Croats, and their political leadership has been deeply involved in the commemorative practices related to the events in May 1945. Bosniaks, while primarily focusing on the continuity with the antifascist Partisan tradition, have increasingly opened up the question of communist crimes such as Bleiburg, albeit through the media and memoirs and not yet systematic academic analysis. The article also examines how the Bleiburg narrative is intertwined into the memory of the war in the 1990s, and more broadly how these memory politics are used by various actors in Bosnia-Herzegovina's deeply divided society.
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The Controversial Commemoration: Transnational Approaches to Remembering Bleiburg
This article provides an overview on some of the key issues related to the Bleiburg commemoration and more broadly the cultural memory of Partisan crimes at the end of the Second World War. Drawing upon four years of fieldwork, media analysis, and recent historiographical debates, the authors take a transnational approach in examining why Bleiburg remains one of the most controversial commemorations not just in Croatia but in the region. The article focuses on historical narratives in the commemorative speeches, the role of space in shaping memory politics, symbols and monuments present at Bleiburg Field, and the broader context of how Austrian politics affects the commemoration and its public perception.
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Deifying the Defeated: Commemorating Bleiburg since 1990
In: L' Europe en formation: revue d'études sur la construction européenne et le fédéralisme = journal of studies on European integration and federalism, Band 357, Heft 3, S. 125-147
ISSN: 2410-9231
Résumé Contrairement au reste de l'Europe orientale après 1989, la transition post-communiste de la Croatie et des autres anciennes républiques yougoslaves s'est accompagnée d'un conflit ethnique violent et de la désintégration de l'État commun. L'effondrement du pouvoir communiste signifia la disparition du monopole sur l'Histoire, et fit émerger des narrations plurielles en supprimant les mémoires collectives, en particulier en ce qui concerne la seconde guerre mondiale et la répression communiste qui la suivit. En Croatie, ceci s'exprima principalement par la réhabilitation du régime oustachi, politisée par la droite radicale et essentiellement tolérée par le gouvernement. En 1989 et 1990, la société croate eut pour la première fois la possibilité de parler librement des morts du camp qui avait perdu la guerre et de les commémorer, alors que cela avait été auparavant un sujet tabou dans la Yougoslavie titiste. La droite radicale chercha à s'attirer des soutiens en associant les victimes du communisme avec les nouvelles victimes de la guerre contre la Serbie de Milosevic et les Serbes locaux rebellés et contre l'État croate. Ces forces politiques soutenaient une identité croate basée sur la victimisation. Les commémorations dans les lieux de mémoire, comme à Bleiburg, constituaient des rituels publics avec des objectifs politiques spécifiques. Ces commémorations continuent à jouer le rôle de plate-forme pour les nationalistes, et les rituels du souvenir des victimes communistes constituent une stratégie politique qui estompe la distance entre le passé et les plus récents souvenirs et histoires de la guerre d'indépendance de la Croatie (1991-1995). Cet article étudie les changements de signification et l'instrumentalisation de la commémoration de Bleiburg de 1990 à 2009.
The Controversial Commemoration: Transnational Approaches to Remembering Bleiburg
This article provides an overview on some of the key issues related to the Bleiburg commemoration and more broadly the cultural memory of Partisan crimes at the end of the Second World War. Drawing upon four years of fieldwork, media analysis, and recent historiographical debates, the authors take a transnational approach in examining why Bleiburg remains one of the most controversial commemorations not just in Croatia but in the region. The article focuses on historical narratives in the commemorative speeches, the role of space in shaping memory politics, symbols and monuments present at Bleiburg Field, and the broader context of how Austrian politics affects the commemoration and its public perception.
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Bleiburg: the creation of a national martyrology
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 62, Heft 7, S. 1153-1174
ISSN: 0966-8136
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Bleiburg: The Creation of a National Martyrology
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 62, Heft 7, S. 1153-1174
ISSN: 1465-3427
Bleiburg: The Creation of a National Martyrology
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 62, Heft 7, S. 1153-1174
ISSN: 1465-3427
Bleiburg: The Creation of a National Martyrology
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 62, Heft 7, S. 1153-1175
ISSN: 0966-8136
Bosnia-Herzegovina and the cultural memory of Bleiburg
In: Politička misao, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 111-130
World Affairs Online
The controversial commemoration: transnational approaches to remembering Bleiburg
In: Politička misao, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 7-32
World Affairs Online
Josip Broz Tito i ratni zločini: Bleiburg, Folksdojčeri
In: Biblioteka Hrvatska povjesnica
In: 3, Monografije i studije 59