Die Shoah Im Spiegel Öffentlicher Konflikte in Polen: Zwischen Opfermythos und Schuldfrage (1985-2001)

Since the mid-1980s, public discourse in Poland has repeatedly focussed on the issue of how to deal with the National Socialists’ destruction of the Jews. This has raised accusations that the Polish people bore an element of moral or active guilt which, however, conflict with the country’s long-established perception of itself as a community of heroes and victims. The author examines the question of how Polish society is handling this contradiction.