Breaking out of Silence : Victims of the 1944 Distomo Massacre in Greek-German Relations

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Breaking out of Silence : Victims of the 1944 Distomo Massacre in Greek-German Relations

Original language description

Besides the massacres in the Czech village of Lidice and Oradour in France, it is the Greek town of Distomo that symbolizes the extreme violence of the Nazis against the civilians of occupied countries in Europe during World War II. Later on, in the Cold War climate and following the policy of containment emerging from the civil war in Greece (1946-1949), the crime was often downplayed, and its narrative blunted for the sake of the stabilization of the Western Bloc, but never fully forgotten. This paper focuses on the postwar reconstruction of Distomo memory in Greek-German relations from the perspective of justice and compensation. Based predominantly on archival and legal sources, it elaborates on the interstate negotiations relating to this massacre. Further, it follows the bottom-up actions of the survivors, opening a possible path to an understanding of postwar reconciliation, not only on a trans-European level but globally.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Suedosteuropa-Mitteilungen

ISSN

0340-174X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

61

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2-3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

81-91

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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