After episodes of state terrorism that have left open wounds and irresolvable antagonism, social integration and community building requires national policies that maintain the reflection (and the controversy) alive. In the same way that the German historian Ernst Nolt ignited the debate, during the fortieth anniversary of the end of World War II, so does the former director of the Directorate of Libraries, Archives and Museums Magdalena Krebs, right, during the fortieth anniversary of the military coup in Chile. This essay is not intended to defend a position in the conflicto but rather to explore a possible way to keep the controversy alive for the present construction of a political community able to critically incorporate their conflicts without fall into the hegemony of consensus, as this involves ongoing production of a memory silenced on the other side of the distinction remember / forget. Patrimonial, in this context, appears today as an alternative.
Keywords:
Patrimonialisation, Memory, Politics, Presentism, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos.
Meirovich, S. (2015). The Chilean Historiskerstreit, essay on political yields of patrimonialisation of memory. Cuadernos Judaicos, (32), Pág. 209–236. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.2015.38097
