Attributions for the negative historical actions of a group

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How the past weighs on the present: social representations of history and their role in identity politics. (2005, background): “Doosje and Branscombe (2003) have shown that groups make ingroup-serving attributions concerning history (e.g. concerning the Germans' treatment of Jews in World War II); however, are such biases knowledge-based (due to knowing only one's own side's point of view), or motivational in nature?”
Ashamed to be an American? The role of identification in predicting vicarious shame for anti-Arab prejudice after 9–11 (2005, background): “On the one hand, past research has demonstrated that individuals who are highly group identified are more likely to show in-group biases (e.g., see Brown, 2000, for a review; Doosje & Branscombe, 2003; Hastorf & Cantril, 1954; Rantilla, 2000).”
National Narrative and Social Psychological Influences in Turks’ Denial of the Mass Killings of Armenians as Genocide (2013, unknown): “Striving to maintain a positive social identity (Tajfel & Turner, 1986), group members distort current and historical events in ways that portray the in-group in a favorable light (Baumeister & Hastings, 1997; Doosje & Branscombe, 2003).”