rewriting history jost corrected
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Rewriting history
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present
controls the past.
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Winston's job
• Ministry of truth• Making historical facts fit the party-line• Adjusting predictions• Deleting persons from history– Damnatio memoriae
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Damnatio Memoriae
• Making persons to unpersons (1984)– Winston's job
• Damnatio Memoriae in Rome• Modern Damnatio Memoriae – Stalin– More subtle today?
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Historical revisionism
• Distortion of historical facts– Mostly for a special reason• rhetoric
• Often denial of historical crimes• Some examples:– Holocaust denial– DDR Schoolbooks– Hitler after attacking Poland– Stab-in-the-back legend (Dolchstoßlegende)
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Lying Pictures
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Question
What do you think? Is there historical revisionism and Damnatio Memoriae in our society?
If yes, how is this possible?