ABSTRACT

This paper analyses the online representations of three events with similar topics and historical settings, but from different parts of Europe. The public memories of the bombings of Coventry, Belgrade and Dresden in the Second World War do not only concern national traumata, but also a possibility of cross-national sustainable reconciliation. The specificity of this choice lies in the fact that each of these places has an important function as a place of remembrance and plays a very important role in structuring the identity of the respective nation.