We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence
and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and
blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the
memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived
experience of survivors and witnesses. Shadows of Trauma analyzes
the transformation of the past from an individual experience to a
collective construction, with special attention to the tensions
that arise when personal experience collides with official
commemoration. In addition to surveying memory’s important terms
and distinctions, Assmann traces the process that emerged after the
fall of the Berlin Wall, of creating a new German memory of the
Holocaust. Assmann revisits the pitfalls of “false memory” and
lingering forms of denial and repression, as well as the new
twenty-first-century discourses, such as that of German
“victimhood,” as well as the new memory sites for a future in
which German memory will be increasingly oriented toward a European
context. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case
studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues
out of which “memory culture” has emerged as a collective
project and a work in progress.
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