Our glorious past is what we remember. The brutality behind it we’ve forgotten



Immediately after the second world war, German people were required to watch documentaries about the horrors of the concentration camps before they could get their ration cards. But the fact that they went, Tony Judt points out in his book Postwar, didn’t mean they actually watched.

from Pocket https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/31/glorious-past-remember-brutality-forgotten
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