ORGANISIERTE ERINNERUNG. EIN BEITRAG ZU ENTSTEHUNGSGESCHICHTE UND FUNKTIONEN DER KRIEGSCHRONIK DER PROVINZ OSTPREUSSEN

• Authors: SAPAŁA BARBARA

Title variants

EN

ORGANIZED MEMORY. HISTORY AND FUNCTION OF THE WAR CHRONICLE OF EAST PRUSSIA

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

At the beginning of the First World War, numerous propaganda operations were conducted in Germany to strengthen national and local identity, including war exhibitions as well as writing and publishing wartime memories. In 1914, the Governor of East Prussia, Adolf von Batocki-Friebe, and a specially ap-pointed committee developed the concept of a chronicle that would document the wartime history of the Province. The task of collecting data and materials for the chronicle, which was supposed to be largely based on the individual experiences and memories of inhabitants, required a huge organizational effort, including the creation a bureaucratic machine. The concept of the chronicle and the stages of the writing process are presented in the first section of the paper, based on source materials and documents. The subsequent sections focus on the functions the chronicle was to fulfill according to its originators, and on the unintended effects and consequences that stemmed from the original concept.

Keywords

EN

World War I; East Prussia; historiography; propaganda; shaping national and regional identity

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Diecezjalne Adalbertinum
• Journal: Studia Ełckie
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 255-268

Contributors

author

SAPAŁA BARBARA

• UNIWERSYTET MIKOŁAJA KOPERNIKA W TORUNIU

Identifiers

ISSN

1896-6896

ISSN

2353-1274