Postkoloniale Erinnerungsprozesse in einer postnationalsozialistischen Gesellschaft – vom Umgang mit Rassismus und Antisemitismus

Abstract

Abstract

Astrid Messerschmidt: Remembering Colonial Experience in a Society related to the Holocaust – Criticizing Racism and Anti-Semitism.

Discussing the consequences of colonialism in a society related to the Holocaust requires an analysis of and a distinction between racism and anti-semitism. This article reflects upon how the different histories of colonialism and National Socialism (NS) affect the social practice of discrimination and dominance in the German society. Acknowledging this fact necessitates the rememberance of colonial history and NS while at the same time by criticizing their repurcussions in the present-day. Aspects of this two-sided perspective of remembrance related to the colonial and the NS experiences are developed.