Mass grave exhumations as patriotic retreat: Sacralisation and militarisation in the remembrance of the ‘cursed soldiers’
Between 2012 and 2017, at the Ł-section of Warsaw’s Powązki Military Cemetery, or ‘Łączka’, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance exhumed a mass grave containing the remains of post-war anti-communist resistance fighters. Being referred to as the ‘cursed soldiers’, these fighters have become...
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Language: | English |
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Manchester University Press
2020-10-01
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Series: | Human Remains and Violence |
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