Remembering to Commemorate : Case Study of Commemorative Traditions of the Belgrade Bombings from World War II (1995-2003)
2015
Abstract
This chapter explores the memory of the bombings of Belgrade in the practice of its commemorative traditions in the late 1990s and early 2000s. More specifically, this study looks into the exploitation of the historical memory of the World War II bombings that occurred in Belgrade, in the times of the final dissolution of Yugoslavia and NATO air strikes in Serbia.
The chapter is based especially on the analysis of the newspaper "Politika" and the mapping of particular places of commemoration in Belgrade. The analysis reveals that the memory of Nazi bombing remained dominant during the researched period, yet it shows that the memory of Allied bombing too was partly restored in the Serbian public discourse.