This chapter charts contemporary manifestations of victimhood, tracing out a symptomatology of the phenomenon, through examples and analogy. The chapter analyses the victim paradigm underpinning the state-sanctioned duty of remembrance, and the ways in which it often finds itself opposed to historiography. The chapter discusses the use of victimhood in humanitarianism, a device that governs and spectacularises the production of words, images and emotional reactions in its audience. Broadening its focus, the chapter queries the tendency to portray the twentieth century as an endless, unjustified bloodbath, and omit that it was also, and above all, the century of freedoms, civil and social rights, hope and the narrowing of the gap between the haves and have-nots. The chapter probes the significance of victimhood in a contemporary ethics built on vulnerability, and explores the manner in which leaders present themselves as victims and the necessity of an enemy in populist discourse.