Collective Memory from a Psychological Perspective

Published on June 14, 2018

When discussing the intergenerational transmission of collective memories, Hirst and colleagues described a story told by a Flemish woman about her mother’s head being shaved after WWII as retribution of alleged collaboration with the Germans. Hirst et al. have been asked to clarify that the perpetrators of this act were Flemish-speaking Belgians, not French-speaking Belgians. This had been clarified in the article online.

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