Open AccessManipulated memory. Right-winged media narratives about homosexual prisoners of concentration camps
Author(s) -
Aleksandra Kumala
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dziennikarstwo i media
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2082-8322
DOI - 10.19195/2082-8322.14.2
Subject(s) - nazi concentration camps , nazism , ignorance , politics , narrative , interpretation (philosophy) , homosexuality , context (archaeology) , psychology , sociology , perversion , criminology , media studies , psychoanalysis , social psychology , history , political science , law , art , literature , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
The article offers a critical interpretation of the chosen online activity of right-wing journalists and Internet users that seem to sympathize with this political option. Selected Tweets and articles are understood as exemplifications of either intentional, unconscious or ignorance-caused manipulations of memory, its object being homosexual prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps. Placing selected Tweets in a broader social, political, as well as historical context, the author shows the discursive exclusion of this group of the Nazi’s “forgotten victims” in the Polish media sphere, (re)producing the negative only image of homosexual prisoners and the tendency to falsely identify camp homosexual violence with camp homosexuality as such.