Ruth Wittlinger
'Collective memory and National Identity in the Berlin Republic:the emergence of a new consensus?'
Wittlinger, Ruth
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Abstract
At the turn of the millennium, a consensus seemed to exist which suggested that Germany had faced up to its National Socialist past and confronted questions of responsibility and guilt. At last, the Holocaust and the Second World War seemed to have become an integral part of German national identity. Within a few years, however, debates about Germany's past once again turned away from suffering caused by the Germans and returned to the issue of German suffering. This contribution will argue that recent dynamics of German collective memory suggest that a new consensus has emerged which acknowledges German responsibility for crimes committed between 1933 and 1945 at the same time as recognising German suffering. Germany is thus less restricted by its past than it has been at any other point since 1945 resulting in much more confident expressions of German national identity than had been possible in the Bonn Republic.
Citation
Wittlinger, R. (2006). 'Collective memory and National Identity in the Berlin Republic:the emergence of a new consensus?'. Debatte (London. Online), 14(3), 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/09651560601042837
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2006-12 |
Deposit Date | Jun 30, 2008 |
Journal | Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe |
Print ISSN | 0965-156X |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-3712 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 201-212 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/09651560601042837 |
Keywords | European studies, German politics. |
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