2. The Lie That Built Modern Europe

This is an AI generated podcast drawing from “The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe” by Tony Judt.

1992 · Dædalus

12:12 History

Postwar European stability relied on convenient myths that blamed Nazi Germany entirely for wartime atrocities while hiding widespread local collaboration. The unraveling of these selective memories after 1989 re-exposed deeply rooted historical grievances across both Western and Eastern Europe.

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