The key change was memories moving from local to national scale, not new remembrance

Evidence

This being said, I do not mean to call into question that there has been a fundamental change since the 1990s, but aim to specify the exact nature of this change. The main transformation to be explained is thus not the sudden remembering of something forgotten, or the return of something that had been completely absent. It is better described as a change of scale, a movement from the local or regional into the national sphere, the transformation of rather localized acts into a political ‘football’, a high-ranking issue in the national political and public sphere. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1217

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether the local-to-national upscaling of a memory battle parallels how group grievances get amplified or manufactured at higher political levels is worth pursuing for the enemy-substitution research.
• XREF: connects to: Changing apprehensions of time in nationalism require the coordinate of changing apprehensions of space — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 23

Broader Connections

• Changing apprehensions of time in nationalism require the coordinate of changing apprehensions of space #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 23