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Stunde Null (1945-1946)
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early efforts to address past
- Karl Jasper's Die Schuldfrage
- Fredrich Meinecke's Die Deutsche Katastrophe -Newspaper Der Ruf in 1947
- Gruppe 47: discusses th role of literature after the war
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Denazification ended
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Founding of FRG
Establishing Founding Myths
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New Political Identities and Past as Demonization (fault of Hitler)
-Hitler and select group blamed for atrocities
- FRG adopts different identities (economic "Wirtschaftwunder), Eurpean, pro-Atlantic) -
German Rearmament
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Legal and politicl confrontation with Nazi past
-Eichmann trial (1961)
-Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt (1963) -
Peter Weiss's documentary Die Ermittlung
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Rolf Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter
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Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (mastering the past)
1967 publication of Die Unfaehigkeit zu trauern (the inability t mounr) -
68ers question their parents and founding myths
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Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung and Ostpolitik
-Brandt kneeling before memorial
-Schmidt visiting Auschwitz -
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Kohl and attempts at Normalization
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Richard von Weizacker speech
Refers to 8 May 1945 as day of liberation -
Bitburg Cemetery Controversy
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Historikerstreit
Habermas vs. Nolte -
Phillip Jenninger Speech
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Fears of Reunification