Henry Rousso deplores the exploitation of History

On February 13th, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed that every child in the last year of primary school should honour the memory of one of the 11,000 Jewish school children deported during the Second World War. "This new initiative appears incongruous, suddenly thrown into the public sphere like other presidential announcements. Once again, media noise is disturbing the respect and silence due to History's dead", regrets Henry Rousso. "Once again, only a morbid memory emerges form the past, only criminal history deserves to be commemorated with a bang. These days only utilitarian use is made of history, its complexity and its depth. The past has become a warehouse storing nationalistic political resources, into which anyone can dip and help themselves to whatever serves their immediate interests. It is worrying to see that, once again, the -bad- example has been set at the highest level (...) ."

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