%0 Journal Article
%T Debating the Greek 1940s: histories and memories of a conflicting past since the end of the Second World War
%J -
%D 2017
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/historein.9400 http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/historein.9400
%X The article examines aspects of the long history of a major field of public debate in the second half of the twentieth century, that of the Greek 1940s, taking as its starting point the recent ˇ°history warˇ± in Greece. It attempts to trace histories and memories from the immediate postwar years and to place them within a broader process: the historisation of the Second World War in Europe. In that context, the article begins by exploring one part of the initial efforts to form a European history of the resistance, from the perspective of the Greek case. Then, the focus is transferred to Greece, and to the mapping of a constellation of different memory and history communities, and the practices of history of the same period: the activities of veteran partisans and eye-witnesses with regard to their contribution to the formation of the first narratives on the war is a core issue at this level. Last, by following the developments in the academy and the politics of history during the Metapolitefsi, the focus returns to the current discussion, attempting a first approach to the subject through the strings that connect it with the past and, at the same time, as a debate of the twenty-first century
%K Second World War
%K Resistance
%K Greek Civil War
%K Greece
%K Postwar Historiography
%K Cold War
%K Metapolitefsi
%U https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historein/article/view/9400