Remembering and forgetting are only contradictory at first glance. In fact, one often cannot take place without the other. As with a full hard drive, whenever something is remembered, i.e. saved, something else has to be forgotten and overwritten. There are therefore productive forms of forgetting that make new things possible. All too often, however, the destructive forms of forgetting, where erasure is used as an instrument of power, predominate, such as Holocaust denial and Nazi trivialization.
