Colonial memories: appeasement is still far away
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Benjamin Stora.
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By: Juliette Gheerbrant Follow
22 min
How to find the “right memory” when we evoke the colonial past?
In France, almost sixty years after the end of the Algerian war, historian Benjamin Stora made a series of proposals to soothe poorly closed scars, at the request of Emmanuel Macron.
In Europe, many countries are crossed by this debate.
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In Germany,
there is a forgotten genocide, that committed by the Second Empire in its former colonies on the Herero and Nama peoples.
Between 1904 and 1908, the Reich's army murdered nearly 100,000 people in the territory of what is now Namibia.
A century later, this past seems far from appeased, tells us
Julien Mechaussie
.
It is a small shell-shaped dough, barely a few grams, which has reignited the debate on
Italy's
colonial past
.
A debate all the more painful as it is linked to the years of fascism.
Cécile Debarge
tells us this curious story.
In Eastern Europe, relations between
Russia
and the countries of the former Soviet bloc
are also made up of memorial conflicts and divergent readings of history.
Jean Cassey was interested in the example of Latvia.
In the Balkans,
Turbofolk makes the dance floors vibrate, but this music has its roots in an Ottoman past which continues to be debated ... A musical decryption by
Simon Rico.
"In a word"
Gezellig
: a very special word that the Dutch use as often as possible!
By
Anne Leray.
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