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Playing Politics with History - The Bundestag Inquiries into East Germany (Hardcover)
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Playing Politics with History - The Bundestag Inquiries into East Germany (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary European History
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After Germany's reunification in 1989-90, the country faced not
only the history and consequences of the nation's division during
the Cold War but also the continuing burdensome legacy of the Nazi
past and the Holocaust. This book explains why concerns that the
Nazi past would be marginalized by the more recent Communist past
proved to be misplaced. It examines the delicate East-West dynamics
and the notion that the West sought to impose "victor's justice"
(or history) on the East. More specifically, it examines, for the
first time, the history and significance of two parliamentary
commissions of inquiry created in the 1990s to investigate the
divided past after 1945 and its effects on the reunified country.
Not unlike "truth commissions" elsewhere, these inquiries provided
an important forum for renegotiating contemporary Germany's
relationship with multiple German pasts, including the Nazi period
and the Holocaust. The ensuing debates and disagreements over the
recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the
wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after
the end of the Cold War.
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