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The Sins of the Fathers - Germany, Memory, Method (Hardcover)
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The Sins of the Fathers - Germany, Memory, Method (Hardcover)
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
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National identity and political legitimacy always involve a
delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations
have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the
catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name
of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant
problems for a country trying to move on and take action in the
present. Yet denial and forgetting carry costs as well. Nowhere has
this precarious balance been more potent, or important, than in the
Federal Republic of Germany, where the devastation and atrocities
of two world wars have weighed heavily in virtually every moment
and aspect of political life. The Sins of the Fathers confronts
that difficulty head-on, exploring the variety of ways that
Germany's leaders since 1949 have attempted to meet this challenge,
with a particular focus on how those approaches have changed over
time. Jeffrey K. Olick asserts that other nations are looking to
Germany as an example of how a society can confront a dark past
casting Germany as our model of difficult collective memory.
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