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TY - JOUR
T1 - La historia en construcción/La construcción de la historia
T2 - La “Wehrmacht alemana” en los recuerdos colectivos e individuales de Austria
AU - Wodak, Ruth
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of German Wehrmarcht, shown in Germany and Austria 1995 and 2002, as examples. Numerous justification and legitimization strategies are involved in public and private discourses. The study claims that official genres, such as school books or TV documentaries, still launch narratives which exculpate the German Wehrmacht as institution, although the evidence provided by historians and the exhibitions is overwhelming. The topoi used (such as “doing one’s duty”, “all wars are the same; and so forth) are to be found in similar debates in other countries as well. Hence, this case study illustrates patters of argumentation which occur much more generally than only in the specific national contexts studied in detail here.
AB - This paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of German Wehrmarcht, shown in Germany and Austria 1995 and 2002, as examples. Numerous justification and legitimization strategies are involved in public and private discourses. The study claims that official genres, such as school books or TV documentaries, still launch narratives which exculpate the German Wehrmacht as institution, although the evidence provided by historians and the exhibitions is overwhelming. The topoi used (such as “doing one’s duty”, “all wars are the same; and so forth) are to be found in similar debates in other countries as well. Hence, this case study illustrates patters of argumentation which occur much more generally than only in the specific national contexts studied in detail here.
KW - Recontextualization
KW - discourse strategy
KW - legitimization strategies
KW - discourse ofjustification
KW - discourse-historical approach
KW - triangulation
KW - topoi
KW - context
KW - German Wehrmacht
KW - victim-discourse
KW - war-crime
KW - exhibition
KW - interview
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 160
EP - 195
JO - Discurso y Sociedad
JF - Discurso y Sociedad
SN - 1887-4606
IS - 1
ER -