ISBN:
9781107278899
,
9781107049314
,
9781107627406
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Harrison, Hope M., 1963 - After the Berlin Wall
DDC:
943.088
Keywords:
Collective memory
;
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 Historiography
;
National characteristics, German
;
Collective memory ; Germany
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Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 ; Historiography
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National characteristics, German
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Germany ; History ; Unification, 1990 ; Historiography
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Germany ; Politics and government ; 1990-
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Germany History Unification, 1990
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Historiography
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Germany Politics and government 1990-
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Deutschland
;
Berliner Mauer
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte 1989-2019
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2019)
DOI:
10.1017/9781107278899
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