World War II ended 60 years ago, but memories of that conflagration show surprising staying power. Danes who lived through the Nazi occupation, which began in 1940, and the liberation in 1945 remember information associated with those two events with considerable accuracy, a new study finds.
Vivid recollections of one’s surroundings and other personal experiences at the time of momentous, surprising events have been dubbed flashbulb memories.
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