| Abstract | Using approaches from Historical Sociology, this essay discusses the social conditions of German identification in Hungary after the Second World War. It focuses on the discursive logic of collective guilt through the empirical analysis of Hungarian nationality politics and public utterances in the context of the international (European) discourses on the past that have influenced Hungary since the 1980s. The essay proposes a historical periodization according to typical configurations of discursive constraints and strategic identifications, and thus explains why the problem arises today as the “memory of expulsions”. (English)
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