My PhD project examines how memories related to World War II are transmitted within families and across generations, as well as the relationship between public and private memories. I focus on the emotional connection that many descendants of Nazis/Nazi party members and Holocaust victims have to a past they did not experience themselves, as it is expressed in their own narratives, and how these narratives relate to memory cultures of the war in Norway and Denmark.

History didactics (DIDAHIS1, DIDAHIS2, HIDID112)

Academic article

• Amundsen, Marianne Sætre (2025). Writing the Burden of Family History: Descendant Narratives of World War II Perpetrators in Norway, 1980s–2020s. (external link)
• Amundsen, Marianne Sætre (2023). Hvordan kan vi forstå påstander om fortielse av fortiden? Betydningen av «fortielse» i fremstillinger av bombingen av Laksevåg 4. oktober 1944. (external link)

Lecture

• Amundsen, Marianne Sætre (2025). Krigens etterminne (Ph.d.-projekt). (external link)
• Amundsen, Marianne Sætre (2025). Vanskelig familiehistorie i møte med nasjonal erindringskultur. (external link)
• Amundsen, Marianne Sætre (2024). Bombingen av Holen skole: Fortelling i endring. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Amundsen, Marianne Sætre (2024). Andre verdenskrig som affektivt minne. (external link)

Masters thesis

• Amundsen, Marianne Sætre (2022). Fortiet krigshistorie? En analyse av fremstillinger av bombingen av Laksevåg/Holen skole 4. oktober 1944. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.