This book presentation demonstrates how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. It argues that in all three countries, a reluctance to confront undesirable parts of their national histories is the root cause explaining why the state-funded Second World War memorial museums remain stuck in the postsocialist transition.

Nataša Jagdhuhn is a museologist whose research focuses on memory constructs in the successor states of Yugoslavia and the history of museology from a Global South perspective, and current debates on decolonizing heritage worldwide. Currently she is working on her post-doc project "The Non-Aligned Movement and Decolonization of the Museum Field: Yugoslav Anticolonial Museums (1961–1989)" at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

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Dr. Jacqueline Nießer