In recent decades, the experience of non-governmental politically motivated violence became a central element of global memory culture. Motivated by several shocking attacks at the beginning of the new millennium, this commemorative culture evolved in a memory ecology, which was significantly shaped by the prosperity of global Holocaust memory. Therefore, public commemoration of politically motivated violence intersects different discursive elements, leading to multidirectional forms of memory. Based on interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, this article examines public memorials commemorating two notable cases of neo-Nazi xenophobic attacks in Germany as discursive spheres referring to the confrontation with the country’s unique past and its impact on Germany’s contemporary self-image challenged by right-wing extremism. We argue that various commemorative actors in the field adopted and appropriated Second World War and Holocaust-related iconography and terminology to shape these memory sites as instruments linking current Germany to the period of National Socialism.

近几十年来，非政府出于政治动机的暴力经历成为全球记忆文化的核心要素。在新千年之初，受到几次令人震惊的攻击的启发，这种纪念文化在记忆生态学中得到了发展，全球生态大屠杀的繁荣极大地影响了这种记忆文化。因此，公众对出于政治动机的暴力行为的纪念与不同的话语元素相交，从而形成了多方向的记忆形式。基于跨学科的理论方法，本文考察了纪念两个新纳粹仇外攻击事件的公共纪念馆，这些案例是德国的讨论领域，涉及与德国独特历史的对抗及其对德国右翼极端主义挑战的当代自我形象的影响。