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After the Berlin Wall : memory and the making of the new Germany, 1989 to the present /

Harrison, Hope Millard,

After the Berlin Wall : memory and the making of the new Germany, 1989 to the present / Hope M. Harrison. - xvii, 463 pages : illustrations (black and white)

Introduction : the Berlin Wall and German historical memory -- Divergent approaches to the fall of the Wall -- The fight over memory at Bernauer Strasse -- Creating a Berlin Wall memorial ensemble at Bernauer Strasse -- Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie -- The Berlin senate's "master plan for remembering the Wall" -- The federal government and memory of the Berlin Wall -- Victims and perpetrators -- Conflicting narratives about the Wall -- Celebrating heroes and a new founding myth -- Conclusion : memory as warning.

9781107049314 9781107627406


Collective memory--Germany.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
National characteristics, German.


Germany--History--Historiography.--Unification, 1990
Germany--Politics and government--1990-

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