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Skeptical Remarks on "Divided Memories"

At the dawn of the new century, there is an urge to look back at the past more than ever, often to remember painful chapters of a history whose victims and, increasingly, their descendants, are now seeking redress. Sometimes, they only ask for symbolic recognition of the ordeal they or their forebears went through. Occasionally, they demand compensation for damages. Victims also try to redraw maps in order to achieve independent state-hood, which usually provokes conflicts and attempts to cleanse areas of those who victimized them or of groups threatening territorial unity. Heribert Adam proposes simple solutions for these problems....