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Article: Memory and atonement: Valerie Krips, on the cultural memory of Dunkirk.(ARTS AND CULTURE)(Viewpoint essay)
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- February 1, 2008
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I grew up in a town on the Thames Estuary, one of the little places that sent boats to Dunkirk to rescue the British Expeditionary Force and, of course, Frenchmen, Dutchmen and Belgians too, in May and June 1940. I didn't know that the father of one of the boys in my class at school had died in the attempt until I saw a BBC series on the Second World War when I was in England in 2006. My school friend's father didn't appear in the main footage, but was caught on camera in one of the scraps of film from the period that were aired on one of the high-definition BBC channels as 'extra' material. These proved to be an extraordinary resource. Fascinating in themselves, they also ...
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