Title: Europe and Collective Memory
Product review: This is a spectacular book. While the author is a superb academic historian, the book is not written for an academic audience (e.g., essentially no footnotes, no references - this is an advantage but a limit as well). It reads very well, even though the book is long and intense. The key to understand the postwar history of Europe (west AND east), the author seems to argues, is the understanding of the mechanisms that govern the formation of collective memory; in particular with regards to Nazis' crimes.The last chapter, The Epilogue, is really illuminating as well as fascinating on this respect.
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