Slovak and Croatian invocation of Europe: the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising and the Jasenovac Memorial Museum.
Even though self-critical dealing with the past has not been an official criterion for joining the EU, the founding of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research and the Holocaust conference in Stockholm at the beginning of 2000 seem to have genera...
| Published in: | Nationalities Papers Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 489 - 508 |
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Cambridge University Press
May2014
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