Book contents
- After the Berlin Wall
- After the Berlin Wall
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Berlin Wall”
- 6 The Federal Government and Memory of the Berlin Wall
- 7 Victims and Perpetrators
- 8 Conflicting Narratives about the Wall
- 9 Celebrating Heroes and a New Founding Myth
- Conclusion: Memory as Warning
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
2 - The Fight over Memory at Bernauer Strasse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2019
- After the Berlin Wall
- After the Berlin Wall
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Berlin Wall”
- 6 The Federal Government and Memory of the Berlin Wall
- 7 Victims and Perpetrators
- 8 Conflicting Narratives about the Wall
- 9 Celebrating Heroes and a New Founding Myth
- Conclusion: Memory as Warning
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
Summary
For many years after the fall of the Wall, a small minority of memory activists worked to counter the majority impulse to remove the Wall from the landscape and from memory. The combination of the physical dismantling of the Wall, the joyous performances of Beethoven, and the trials connected to deaths at the Wall were all meant to draw that period of German history to a close and allow people to move on, even as others were focused on the deeper, more problematic past connected to the Holocaust.
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- After the Berlin WallMemory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, pp. 72 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019