Images which determine correct representations

"It is a memory consisting largely of images that have by now become so conventionalized that they determine what is a "correct" representation of the period and what is not. Images of Hitler or of the war have engraved themselves so indelibly on the public consciousness that new images are hard to imagine. Thus history films increasingly replace not only historical experience but also historical imagination."

Anton Kaes
From Hitler to Heimat: the return of History as film, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1989, p.196.