Revisionist national narratives in the memoirs of Estonian and Latvian Waffen-SS Legionnaires

Karl Stuklis

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2024, vol. 55, issue 1, 197-215

Abstract: The Baltic experience of World War II is underrepresented in European and global collective memory. Therefore, selected memoirs of Estonian and Latvian Waffen-SS Legionnaires, previously not studied in depth, are analyzed. Theories of attribution and nodal points are applied to determine how national narratives are constructed and their relation to collective memory. Overall, the authors produce similar narratives that justify military collaboration with the Nazis as having been in the national interest. This supports the argument that the collective memory of contemporary Estonia and Latvia is based upon a revision of established narratives of World War II and the Holocaust.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2173262

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