COME: Controversial Memory Together Exploring politics of memory in Bleiburg/Pliberk
COME: Controversial Memory Together Exploring politics of memory in Bleiburg/Pliberk
Bleiburg/Pliberk (Austria), 2-9 July 2023
In many European countries, the acceptance of right-wing populist and right-wing extremist ideologies is increasing. We stand against this! In this context, fascist groups use distorted or incomplete representations of history to give historical legitimacy to their ideological stance. An example of this is the myth of the "Bleiburg/Pliberk massacre", which is widespread in Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. Until recently, thousands of Ustaša supporters, (neo-)Nazis, fascists, conservatives and church representatives gathered every year in May in the town of Bleiburg/Pliberk to commemorate the alleged victims of the so-called "Bleiburg/Pliberk Massacre" in May 1945. Especially since the 1990s, the commemoration on the occasion of this myth developed into one of the largest networking meetings of the extreme right in Europe. It was not until 2022 that the commemoration was officially banned by the Austrian federal government.
This youth exchange aims to engage young people (between 18-30) in activism against right-wing populism and right-wing extremism. Depending on the interests of the participants, they can create social media posts, create and/or revise Wikipedia articles, record podcasts, plan interviews, plan anti-fascist commemorative events, write journalistic articles, create exhibition concepts, make short films, design educational workshops and/or creatively produce literary writing during the exchange and afterwards.
This is the overview page of the Wikipedia part of the project.
Here we will list all articles that we edited during the project.
№ | Bild | Article | Description | de | en | hr | sh | sl | Σ |
Wikidata | st. | |
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1 | Bleiburg repatriations | Incident in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II | + | + | + | + | + | 5 | Q312388 | 6 | + | |
2 | Bleiburg | municipality in Völkermarkt District, Carinthia, Austria | + | + | + | + | + | 5 | Q871356 | 19 | + | |
3 | Croatian memorial at Loibacher Feld | memorial site for Croatian Ustaše soldiers in Bleiburg/Pliberk (Austria) | + | - | - | - | - | 1 | Q62071410 | 5 | + | |
4 | Independent State of Croatia | World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (April 1941-May 1945) | + | + | + | + | + | 5 | Q153128 | 28 | + | |
5 | Ustaše | Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization (1929–45) | + | + | + | + | + | 5 | Q151179 | 17 | + | |
6 | Maja Haderlap (b. 1961) | Austrian writer | + | + | - | - | + | 3 | Q93959 | 21 | + | |
7 | Angel of Oblivion | novel by Maja Haderlap | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q27955303 | 4 | ||
8 | Carinthian Plebiscite | 1920 plebiscite in the southern portion of Carinthia | + | + | + | - | + | 4 | Q692136 | 4 | + | |
9 | Austria victim theory | Ideology that Austria was an involuntary victim of Nazism | + | + | - | + | - | 3 | Q28221984 | 6 | ||
10 | Nikola Mandić (1869-1945) | Croatian politician (1869-1945) | + | + | + | + | - | 4 | Q1561127 | 15 | + | |
11 | Ante Pavelić (1889-1959) | Croatian fascist general and military dictator (1889-1959) | + | + | + | + | + | 5 | Q36965 | 29 | + | |
12 | Moscow Declaration | allied Powers' agreement in the wane of WWII | + | + | - | - | + | 3 | Q698269 | 6 | ||
13 | Jasenovac concentration camp | concentration camp run by the Ustaše in Independent State of Croatia during World War II. | + | + | + | + | + | 5 | Q155032 | 19 | + | |
14 | Jastrebarsko concentration camp | concentration camp for children of the Independent State of Croatia | + | + | + | + | - | 4 | Q1276289 | 7 | ||
15 | Sisak II concentration camp | concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia | + | + | - | + | - | 3 | Q1719420 | 4 | ||
16 | Ernst Kirchweger (1898-1965) | + | + | - | - | - | 2 | Q86316 | 15 | + | ||
17 | Kreisky–Peter–Wiesenthal affair | political and personal feud | + | + | - | - | - | 2 | Q1787717 | 2 | ||
18 | Kurt Waldheim affair | international debate about alleged participation of Kurt Waldheim in war crimes during the NS regime | + | - | - | - | - | 1 | Q1530225 | 6 | ||
19 | Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) | Austrian politician and diplomat (1918-2007) | + | + | + | + | + | 5 | Q1260 | 35 | + | |
20 | Wehrmachtsausstellung | exhibitions on the war crimes of the Wehrmacht | + | + | - | - | - | 2 | Q896407 | 8 | + | |
21 | Marko Perković (b. 1966) | Croatian singer-songwriter | - | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q935263 | 17 | + | |
22 | Thompson | Croatian rock band | + | + | - | - | - | 2 | Q15285649 | 11 | + | |
23 | Roma of Croatia | ethnic group in Croatia | - | + | + | - | - | 2 | Q3502513 | 1 | + | |
Σ | → Autolist→ map gallery | 20 | 20 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 75 | avg: 3\15\65% | 285 |