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Chapter 4
Normalcy and Memory
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A New Germany (1990-2023)
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Norbert Blüm and Wolfgang Schäuble Debate the Location of the Capital (June 20, 1991)
Rainer Zitelmann: Reunification and German Self-Hatred (1992)
Rainer Eppelmann talks about the Enquete Commission on the SED Dictatorship (May 3, 1992)
Author Christa Wolf Reflects on the Debate about East German Literature (September 27, 1993)
Author Christa Wolf (1992)
The Social Democratic Intellectual Peter Glotz Warns against a False Normalization (1994)
Enquete Commission for the Reappraisal of the History and Consequences of the SED Dictatorship (April 11, 1994)
Artist Christo in Front of the Wrapped Reichstag (June 25, 1995)
The Writer Monika Maron Comments on the Popularity of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Reichstag (July 3, 1995)
Author Daniela Dahn Announces a New East German Self-Confidence (September 21, 1996)
Author Daniela Dahn (November 1, 2000)
Writer Martin Walser Reflects on the Difficulties of Living with German Guilt (October 11, 1998)
Ignatz Bubis, the Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, warns against Relativizing the Holocaust (November 9, 1998)
Writer Martin Walser in Front of a Portrait of Ignatz Bubis (May 17, 2007)
Citizens’ Office of the Association for the Reappraisal of Damage Inflicted by the SED Dictatorship (September 2, 1998)
NPD Press Conference: “No More German Self-Hatred” (September 7, 2000)
The Journalist Josef Joffe Reflects on Sources of German Pride (2001)
Public Discussion about “Nation, Patriotism, and Democratic Culture in Germany, 2002” (May 8, 2002)
Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder lays a Wreath on the Grave of an unknown German Soldier at the Ranville War Cemetery in France (June 6, 2004)
Green Party Campaign: “Christmas in Lower Saxony – Now Even More Patriotic!” (December 13, 2004)
Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder enters his Name in Guest Book of the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising (August 1, 2004)
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (April 21, 2005)
Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse Opens the Holocaust Memorial (May 10, 2005)
An East German Journalist Criticizes the Lack of German Unity (August 25, 2005)
Germany Hosts the 2006 Soccer World Cup (Retrospective account, 2011)
Controversy on a Planned Museum on “Flight, Expulsion, and Reconciliation” (November 12, 2008)
The New Documentation Center on National Socialism Opens in Munich (April 2015)
NS Documentation Center Munich (2015)
An Exhibition on the Crimes of the Wehrmacht Splits the German Public (Retrospective account, 2015)
Germany Rediscovers Its Colonial Past (October 16, 2016)
Publicist Karl Wilhelm Fricke on the Commission of Inquiry on the SED Dictatorship in Germany (Retrospective Account, 2017)
Neue Wache Memorial Berlin (2023)
Robert Habeck on Israel and Antisemitism (November 3, 2023)
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