HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013

Lecture Twenty-One: Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Art After Auschwitz?

• The End of De-Nazification in the West• “Anti-Fascism” as Formal East German

Ideology• Critical Voices -- Gruppe 47• Functionalist Architecture and Rebuilding the

Cities• A Silent Generation

Cold War Tensions

• Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact• American Military Presence• Connections between East and West before

and after the Wall• End of Reunification Idea?• Spying -- Internal and External• The Staatssicherheitsdienst (Stasi)

A New Generation Questions the Nazi Past

• Literature and the Task of Interpreting the Nazi Era -- Böll, Grass

• Arendt -- Eichmann in Jerusalem• The Fischer Controversy• Beginnings of Scholarly Research on the

Holocaust

Germany in the 60s and 70s

• Gastarbeiter and Immigration to Germany• End of the CDU Era in the West• 1968 in West Germany• The Stagnation of East Germany• Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik• Varieties of Anti-Establishment Radicalism -- APO,

Baader-Meinfof Gang/RAF, the Green Party

The Historikerstreit and Dealing with the Past

• The Sonderweg Thesis• Nolte vs. Habermas on German Responsibility• A “Normal Nation”?• Routine of the East/West Division