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062549243                        

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The politics of memory : looking for Germany in the new Germany / Jane Kramer

Kramer, Jane, 1938-

1. ed

New York, NY : Random House, 1996

XXIV, 293 S ; 24 cm

Englisch

eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

0-679-44872-1

OCoLC: 832427503     

OCoLC: 33864966 (aus SWB)      ; OCoLC: 832427503 (aus SWB)     

LB 63015  | NP 6020      Ähnliche Literatur

DD290.24

907.2043 ; 907/.2043

Basisklassifikation: 17.97 (Texte eines einzelnen Autors) ; 18.06 (Angloamerikanische Literatur) ; 15.43 (Deutsche Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart)

*Deutschland ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Historiography -- Germany ; Political culture -- Germany ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence -- Germany ; Nationalism -- Germany ; Germany -- Ethnic relations

Wiedervereinigung ; Identität ; Nation ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; reunification ; identity ; nation ; Federal Republic of Germany ; historical memory/historical clarification

In the Politics of Memory Jane Kramer surveys the moral and political landscape of today's Germany, where the reunification of East and West has brought into conflict two vastly different memories of what it means to "be" German. These essays cut straight to the Zeitgeist of Europe's most politically and economically influential country. Self-styled anarchists destroy a filmmaker's Berlin restaurant to protest its "bourgeois" nature, but their ruthless call for freedom is simply German fascism repackaged. A young East German who escapes to the West doesn't know what to do with himself once he gets there - an example of the deep passivity that is perhaps the Communists' most troubling legacy to the "new" Germany. And the bizarre story of a German holocaust memorial reveals a revisionist desire to portray the country as a victim of World War II by "turning the twelve dark years of Hitler into twelve years of resistance to Hitler and occupation by Hitler; an abandonment, for the sake of settling the past into 'history,' of the very plain historical truth that Germany had chosen Hitler

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In the Politics of Memory Jane Kramer surveys the moral and political landscape of today's Germany, where the reunification of East and West has brought into conflict two vastly different memories of what it means to "be" German. These essays cut straight to the Zeitgeist of Europe's most politically and economically influential country. Self-styled anarchists destroy a filmmaker's Berlin restaurant to protest its "bourgeois" nature, but their ruthless call for freedom is simply German fascism repackaged. A young East German who escapes to the West doesn't know what to do with himself once he gets there - an example of the deep passivity that is perhaps the Communists' most troubling legacy to the "new" Germany. And the bizarre story of a German holocaust memorial reveals a revisionist desire to portray the country as a victim of World War II by "turning the twelve dark years of Hitler into twelve years of resistance to Hitler and occupation by Hitler; an abandonment, for the sake of settling the past into 'history,' of the very plain historical truth that Germany had chosen Hitler