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A Case of Successful Transitional Justice: Fritz Bauer and his Late Recognition in the Federal Republic of Germany

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Gortat J.
Polish Political Science Yearbook
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2017
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vol. 2 (46)
71-84
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Germany is an example of a country which has been implementing transitional justice for decades and is still active in this field. What is more, contemporary Germans have recently come to terms with their not-so-distant past and their negligence in this area by showing the falsehood, backwardness, and injustice as negative foundations of the young Federal Republic. This article evokes the person of Fritz Bauer, the prosecutor in the state of Hessen. His struggle for human dignity and the memory of his achievements after his death exemplify an accomplished case of transitional justice and the memory of it. During his lifetime he contributed to bringing to trial numerous Nazi criminals, even at the cost of habitual threats and disregard. Forgotten for a few decades, Bauer and his legacy have been recently rediscovered and studied. Eventually, Bauer became a movie character and was finally brought back to the collective memory of Germans. The belated, but a well-deserved wave of popularity of Fritz Bauer in the German culture memory proves that reflections on the transitional justice are still topical and important.
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AGAINST POLITICAL COMPROMISES – COMING TO TERMS WITH THE AUSTROFASCIST AND NATIONAL SOCIALIST PAST IN JOHN OLDEN’S DOCUDRAMA THE BLUE DANUBE (1965)

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Gortat J.
Przegląd Zachodni
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2022
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issue 1 (382)
185-202
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An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube), written by Hellmut Andics and Franz Hiesel and directed by John Olden in 1965, may be viewed as a groundbreaking television docudrama in Austria for two reasons. Firstly, it offered a new, hybrid form called ‘docudrama,’ which combined elements of a documentary film with the features of a fiction film. Secondly, in the context of the Austrian culture of remembrance, the film was astonishing in that its narrative boldly dealt with topics considered taboo at a time of an informal consensus between the two major political parties: the ÖVP and the SPÖ as well as their successors, the CSP and the SDAP. In line with this consensus, no mention of the antagonism between the conservatives and socialists during the authoritarian rule of Chancellors Dollfuß and Schuschnigg was made in the public discourse, instead, both parties claimed to have been victims of the Nazi terror (the so called “camp street” myth – Mythos der Lagerstraße). An der schönen blauen Donau significantly infringes this consensus, showing the persecution of socialist activists by the Austrofacist regime and the downplaying of the activity of the underground Nazis in Austria (the so called illegale Nazis). Embedded in the context of the Austrian post-war culture of remembrance, the paper analyses the teleplay’s narrative, paying special attention to selected characters representing three political movements in Austria: the socialists, the conservatives and the Nazis. Film narration analysis is the principal research method applied in the paper. Its last section also examines the reception of the docudrama and its problematic distribution.
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Niemiecka tożsamość narodowa a tożsamość europejska – dwa abstrakcyjne pojęcia czy określony dorobek kultury i wartości?

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Gortat J.
Zeszyty Naukowe Zbliżenia Cywilizacyjne
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2014
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vol. 10
121-142
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The article describes the most significant factors of the German identityconstructing process after the World War II comparing it to the same process in the European Union. It focuses above all on the official documents and acts concerning common identity and also asks a question if the process of embedding them in the European law legacy does constitute a tradition characteristic for European Union and forms its own part of its supranational identity. Finally it contains an attempt to answer the question about the future of both German and European identity.
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