Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two GermanysA significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996. |
Contents
Preface xi | 12 |
German Communisms Master Narratives of | 13 |
German Communists and | 40 |
Struggles for | 69 |
The Jewish Question in | 106 |
Memory and Policy in East Germany from Ulbricht | 162 |
Divided Memory in | 201 |
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Adenauer's Alexander Abusch Allies American anti-Nazi anti-Semitism antifascism antifascist Archives Auschwitz Bonn BStU BStU MfSZ-Archiv Bundestag capitalists Central Committee Cold Communist concentration camps criticism democracy denazification Deutsche Deutschen dictatorship Dietz Verlag East Berlin emigration Ernst Europe exile fascism Federal Republic Frankfurt Freies Deutschland German Communists German government German history German political Germany's Geschichte Grotewohl guilt Hitler Holocaust Ibid ideology imperialist Israel Jewish catastrophe Jewish question Jews Juden justice Konrad Adenauer Kurt Schumacher leaders Leo Zuckermann memory Mexico City moral Moscow murder National Socialism Nazi crimes Nazi past Nazi regime Nazism Norden Nuremberg officials Otto Grotewohl Paul Merker persecution postwar German purge Reden resistance restitution Reuter SAPMO-BA Slansky Social Democrats solidarity Soviet Union Soviet zone speech struggle Theodor Heuss tion trials University Press Walter Ulbricht wartime Weimar West German Western Wiedergutmachung Wilhelm Pieck World wrote York Zeitung ZPKK