After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present
by Hope M. Harrison
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The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of the Berlin Wall and examines their role in the creation of a new German national narrative. With victims, perpetrators and heroes, the Berlin Wall has joined the Holocaust as an essential part of German collective memory. Key Wall anniversaries show more have become signposts marking German views of the past, its relevance to the present, and the complicated project of defining German national identity. Considering multiple German approaches to remembering the Wall via memorials, trials, public ceremonies, films, and music, this revelatory work also traces how global memory of the Wall has impacted German memory policy. It depicts the power and fragility of state-backed memory projects, and the potential of such projects to reconcile or divide. show lessTags
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Hope M. Harrison is Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University.
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 943.088 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Reunification 1990-
- LCC
- DD290.24 .H37 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany
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