Revenge from a Jewish perspective - imagined or otherwise - hardly plays a role in post-Shoah German memorial culture. Why is that? Literature provides some intriguing answers, e.g. by tying the matter in with the history of colonialism.
The video is an extract of the panel discussion “Revenge Culture(s)?! On the Colonial Coding of ‘Revenge’ in the Historical Present” that took place on September 30, 2021 at MARKK (Museum am Rothenbaum, Kulturen und Künste der Welt) Hamburg, organized and anchored by Manuel Bolz.