Volume 39, nr. 1 10 minutes By Michelle Moonen, English This article reveals the dynamic interplay between invented traditions, imagined communities and commemoration of the Second World War within the Utrecht student association U.V.S.V. The Utrecht student association U.V.S.V, a so-called ‘gezelligheidsvereniging,’ has its own way of traditions commemorating the Second World War. How can […]
Tag: World War II
Six Degrees of Self-Delusion
A special yearbook from 1942: “This book is not ordinary at all, but the materialisation of some despicable beliefs.”
Destroying Democracy
Philippe Pétain’s methods and reasons for undermining democracy: “During World War II, the democratic institutions of the French Republic were actively destroyed.”
