ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some key trends in British, French and Italian Holocaust television since 2000. It represents the relationship between national and cosmopolitan memory as it emerges from the representation of this historical event. The chapter also represents the complex relationship between scholarly works of synthesis and comparable TV products. The opening of archives following the Soviet Union's collapse coincided with - and had a lasting impact on - the development of history-writing on World War II and the Holocaust, in particular perpetrator research. Europe was a little slower in creating its own Holocaust TV fictions, but Italy, France and Britain have by now produced a significant body of such products. Holocaust TV is tightly linked to broader cultural and political developments. The process of construction of shared European official Holocaust narrative takes nourishment from memory rituals such as the Auschwitz ceremony.
