After the Berlin Wall

Klappentext A revelatory history of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall and its significance in defining contemporary German national identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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.

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