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-