Terrorism has ruined the fiction market, according to publishers. The book-buying public descends on titles like The Post-American World and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and fiction is cast once again as something pleasant and childish … Lire / Read
Topography of National Amnesia
While elites in Germany bemoan young peoples’ lack of knowledge of the history of East German Communism and occasionally reveal the limitations of their own understanding, they neglect to preserve the landmarks that ground the historical knowledge of this period … Lire / Read
Breaking with Nazism: National Identity and Memory in West Germany after the Second World War
What are the effects of the Nazi legacy on the Federal Republic of Germany? What effects did it have on German national identity and collective memory in the decades following WWII? A connection exists between the shifting conceptions of collective … Lire / Read