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United City, Divided Memories?
Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin
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2010
Summary
United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War-era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen looks at monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves. Verheyen's comprehensive and critical analysis is considered against the broader background of Germany's efforts at coming to grips with its dual twentieth-century totalitarian past. This book demonstrates that important elements of east-west contrast linger and complicate the city's efforts at crafting a more definitively future-oriented united identity. United City, Divided Memories? will stimulate debate among German studies scholars, as well as among those interested in German history and cultural studies.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1839-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4417-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
301
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Chapter 1: A City and a Nation Between Memory and Future No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 2: Capturing Memory and Crafting Identity No access Pages 23 - 56
Introduction No access
Chapter 3: Occupation, Confrontation, Departure: The Great Powers in Postwar Berlin No access
Chapter 4: Soviet Traces No access
Chapter 5: The Western Allies: A Vanishing Legacy? No access
Chapter 6:Great Powers on Display: A Brief Tale of Two Museums No access
Conclusion No access
Notes to Part I No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 7: Bureaucratic Shield and Repressive Sword: Rise and Demise of the Stasi No access
Chapter 8: Tyrannical Banality on Display: The "Stasi-Museum" No access
Chapter 9: The Commemoration of Persecution in Hohenschönhausen No access
Chapter 10: Coming to Terms with the "Second" German Dictatorship No access
Conclusion No access
Notes to Part II No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 11: Monumental Schizophrenia: The Berlin Wall and Concrete Closure No access
Chapter 12: Commemorating a Vanishing Monument No access
Chapter 13: Checkpoint and Watchtower Museums No access
Chapter 14:Painting and Tracing the Wall No access
