2016: TK, "Memory/Oblivion, History, Discourse: Rethinking Key-Notions, their Political Architecture and their Social Effects in Regard to the “Concentrationary Universe” " T. Petras (ed.), Politics of Memory and Oblivion, Modes of Transmission and Interpretation, Museum Tržič, 138

Fascism and Nazism are/were “social constitutions without memory”. On account of the initial memory imbalance in their mental constitutions, where the initiative is on the side of the invasive mechanisms of oblivion (before memory and remembrance), every comprehension of reality – be it present or past – is thwarted. On the one hand testimonies about the concentrationary universe, its multiple forms of deprivation and politics of terror that have marked various grades of oblivion – the oblivion of humanity, of care for others and of ethics, and on the other hand the Shoah as the residual event of the 20th century that has spread out a monstrous model of the physical extermination of whole communities (mostly Jews, but also some others to a smaller degree) by means of industrial killing – outline the agency of radicalized oblivion by totalitarian societies on a large scale. The article – in connection with the concentration camps and the Shoah – in the first place enumerates three principal oblivions in the Slovene historiography of the Third Reich. These are: oblivion of the places of Nazi terror, oblivion of segments of the Slovene collaboration with the Nazis, and oblivion of some of the supreme figures from the Nazi genocide policy who were at least partially of Slovene descent. All three oblivions are linked to the local, national and transnational histories. The article also delineates complex conceptual relations between memory, oblivion, history and discourse. Keywords: history, memory, oblivion, discourse, Shoah, concentration camp, transmission, Odilo Globočnik, culture of silence