[4] Historical accounts are always partial and potentially misrepresent since historians do not work with bare, uninterpreted facts.
Historians pose questions to which the archives responds leading them to “facts that can be asserted in singular, discrete propositions that usually include dates, places, proper names, and verbs of action or condition”.
A group's communal memory becomes its common knowledge which creates a social bond, a sense of belonging and identity.
Yet since I want neither to accept nor to reject a conclusion formulated in precisely these terms, let us leave this question suspended for the moment.
"[7]Barbara Gabriel provided a model for reading the complexities of memory and forgetting by situating unheimlich within the heimlich, in a Freudian 'one within the other structure'.
[8] As point of departure Gabriel examined Edgar Reitz's eleven-part West German television series entitled Heimat.
Gabriel developed the concept of an impulse towards national memory work in Germany that stemmed from a haunted subject yearning for a lost, far away, nostalgic place, a utopic homeland.