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After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present

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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 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.

The book is being published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Draws on an extensive range of archival sources and more than 100 primary interviews

Considers multiple approaches to remembering the Wall, including memorials, trials, films and music

Author: Harrison Hope
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 478
ISBN: 9781107049314
Cover: Hardback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2019

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations and German terms

Introduction: the Berlin Wall and German historical memory

1. Divergent approaches to the fall of the Wall

2. The fight over memory at Bernauer Strasse

3. Creating a Berlin Wall Memorial ensemble at Bernauer Strasse

4. Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie

5. The Berlin Senate's master plan for remembering the Wall

6. The Federal Government and the Berlin Wall

7. Victims and perpetrators

8. Conflicting narratives about the Wall

9. Heroes to celebrate and a new founding myth

Conclusion: memory as warning

Bibliography

Index.

Hope M. Harrison is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, Washington DC. The recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the Wilson Center, and the American Academy in Berlin, she is the author of Driving the Soviet up the Wall (2003), which was awarded the 2004 Marshall Shulman Book Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and was also published to wide acclaim in German translation. She has served on the National Security Council staff, currently serves on the board of three institutions in Berlin connected to the Cold War and the Berlin Wall, and has appeared on CNN, the History Channel, the BBC, and Deutschlandradio.

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