According to the master commemorative narrative of the EU, the European integration project represents a break with the violent European past characterised by fragmentation and nationalism, which culminated in World War Two and the crimes of Nazism and Stalinism. However, recent scholarship has criticised the omission of 19th and 20th-century European colonialism from the memory narratives advanced by the EU. In this article, I use the permanent exhibition in the House of European History (HEH) in Brussels to take this insight one step further and make two arguments. Firstly, I show that it is not only colonialism that is erased from official memory but, more broadly, empires and imperialism, although most European history over the past 2000 years was imperial. Secondly, I understand this "imperial amnesia" as an anxiety-controlling mechanism aimed at reducing the dissonance between the self-proclaimed image of a normative and civilian power on the one hand and imperial-like tendencies in its behaviour on the other. Keywords: European Union, empire, memories, memory, history Avrupa Birligi'nin hakim hatira anlatisina gore; Avrupa entegrasyon projesi, Ikinci Dunya Savasi, Nazizim ve Stalinizmin suclariyla doruga cikan parcalanma ve milliyetcilikle sekillenen siddetli Avrupa gecmisini geride birakmayi temsil etmektedir. Fakat guncel calismalar; XIX. ve XX. yuzyildaki Avrupa somurgeciliginin, AB tarafindan gelistirilen bellek anlatilarindan cikarilmasini elestirmektedir. Bu makalede, Bruksel'deki Avrupa Tarihi Evi'ndeki daimi sergiyi bu gozlemi bir adim daha ileri goturmek ve iki arguman daha olusturmak icin kullaniyorum. Ilk olarak, son 2000 yildaki Avrupa tarihinin cogu emperyal olmasina ragmen, resmi bellekten silinenin sadece somurgecilik degil, daha genis anlamda imparatorluklar ve emperyalizm oldugunu gosteriyorum. Ikinci olarak ise, "emperyal unutkanligi"ni, kendi kendini ilan eden normatif ve sivil bir guc imajiyla davranislarindaki emperyal benzeri egilimler arasindaki uyumsuzlugu azaltmayi amaclayan kaygi kontrol mekanizmasi olarak tasavvur ediyorum. Anahtar Kelimeler: Avrupa Birligi, imparatorluk, anilar, hafiza, tarih