| Titre | LA PHILATÉLIE ALLEMANDE ENTRE MÉMOIRE ET AMNÉSIE (1949-1989) | |
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| Auteur | Frédéric Rousseau | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 59, juillet-septembre 1998 | |
| Page | 91-103 | |
| Résumé anglais | German Philately between Memory and Amnesia (1949-1989), Frédéric Rousseau. Postage stamps, so sought after by philatelists, are neglected by historians. What a mistake. Because in a long-term analysis, stamps are the witness of memorialist policies of each issuing country. The study of West German stamps for the period from the creation of West Germany to the fall of the wall, unveils a deeply Christian and Western German identity. Moreover, the basic question of the relationship of the people with their past can be seen. Unlike its eastern neighbor who fostered a socialist and antifascist memory, West Germany, seeking normality, chose a less militant, more consensual memory, at the price of a few memory lapses and a big repression of the Nazi past. | |
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