A conquered and subject nation can crystallize as a single imagined unity.

Evidence

“Not until Austria and Prussia had fallen after a vain struggle did I really begin to love Germany …as Germany succumbed to conquest and subjection it became to me one and indissoluble,” writes E. M. Arndt in his Erinnerungen aus Schweden, 1818, p. 82. Translation quoted from Pundt, op. cit., p. 151. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2259

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A nation sustains itself through shared memory plus present-day will to live together — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 65