Einordnung – Zum Verständnis bürgerschaftlicher Erinnerungsarbeit

Abstract

In this text, the meaning of civic remembrance work is clarified and related to trends of the state’s historical policy. An excursus on theorybuilding in the political sciences negotiates the problem of the concept of state and prepares the field for discussing the dwindling of the emotional reference to the history of National Socialism, to which civic remembrance work provides an answer.