Memorie şi istorie în literatura concentraţionară

Abstract

The concentrationary literature was, during the 20th century, a kind of writing which, born from the traumatic experiences generated by applied totalitarian ideologies, aimed to remain a precise memory of those times, a fact that turns it into a firsthand historical source. This paper analyses two case studies: Communism and Nazism, presenting how this literature is a living source and how it is used by the scholars specialised in researching the totalitarian phenomenon.