National indifference concept and contemporary WWII military reenactment in Czech lands: a comparative view of the groups reenacting Hultschin and Estonian SS conscripts
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F24%3A10482002" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/24:10482002 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Vlcnfw7cxS" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Vlcnfw7cxS</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/APH.2024.129.08" target="_blank" >10.12775/APH.2024.129.08</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
National indifference concept and contemporary WWII military reenactment in Czech lands: a comparative view of the groups reenacting Hultschin and Estonian SS conscripts
Original language description
For the first time in the Czech Republic, a research project on contemporary military re-enactment has been carried out based on oral history. The research team managed to record memory narratives of, among others, three military reenactment associations, two of which still engage in a controversial reenactment of Wehrmacht Heer units (coming from the Hultschin/Hlučín/Hulczyn region). At the same time, the third reenacts Estonian SS units. In the spirit of post- positivist oral history, the collected narratives have been analysed primarily to reveal the cultural content, forms, and processes that shape the historical subjectivity of the narrators, that is, the way they understand themselves in history. One key cultural form the narrators use is the so-called 'national indifference'. The reenactors refuse to identify themselves ethno-culturally (and ideologically) with German or Czech/Czechoslovak warring sides. These cultural forms are further augmented with the concept of an'ordinary soldier', which is well-known in reenactment studies. As a result, reenactors self-interpret themselves as subjects who reenact Axis German armies, but consciously, within liminal contexts, whilst rejecting Nazi ideology, which makes them signifi cantly more acceptable in Czech military reenactment milieus. In this respect, the study provides a comparative view of the Hultschin and Czech Estonian SS reenactors within the context of reenactor associations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
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)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-07058S" target="_blank" >GA22-07058S: History and culture of contemporary Czech military re-enactment in an interdisciplinary perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Poloniae Historica
ISSN
0001-6829
e-ISSN
2450-8462
Volume of the periodical
2024
Issue of the periodical within the volume
129
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
223-250
UT code for WoS article
001288022500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85201016743