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Uffe Østergaard contributes to Stenius, Österberg & Östling (eds.): Nordic Narratives of the Second World War

26.07.2011
Swords, Shields or Collaborators? Danish Historians and the Debate over the German Occupation of Denmark

Nordic Narratives

How have the dramatic events of the Second World War been viewed in the Nordic countries? In Nordic Narratives of the Second World War, leading Nordic historians analyze post-war memory and historiography. They explore the relationship between scholarly and public understandings of the war. How have national interpretations been shaped by official security-policy doctrines? And in what way has the end of the Cold War affected the Nordic narratives?
The authors not only present the overarching themes that set the Nordic experience of the Second World War apart from other European narratives, but also describe the distinctive postwar characteristics of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. Key concepts such as national identity, memory culture, and the moral turn are placed in their Nordic context.
Bringing new nuance to the post-war history of Europe, this is the first work to focus on Nordic narratives of the war, and is valuable reading for students, academics, and all who have an interest in the historiography of the Second World War or modern European history.
Uffe Østergaard: Swords, Shields or Collaborators? Danish Historians and the Debate over the German Occupation of Denmark, pp. 31-54 in Henrik Stenius, Mirja Österberg & Johan Östling (eds.): Nordic Narratives of the Second World War - National Historiographies Revisited. Nordic Academic Press 2011, ISBN 978-91-85509-49-2.





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