Book contents
- After the Berlin Wall
- After the Berlin Wall
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and German Terms
- Introduction: The Berlin Wall and German Historical Memory
- 1 Divergent Approaches to the Fall of the Wall
- 2 The Fight over Memory at Bernauer Strasse
- 3 Creating a Berlin Wall Memorial Ensemble at Bernauer Strasse
- 4 Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie
- 5 The Berlin Senate’s “Master Plan for Remembering the Berlin Wall”
- 6 The Federal Government and Memory of the Berlin Wall
- 7 Victims and Perpetrators
- 8 Conflicting Narratives about the Wall
- 9 Celebrating Heroes and a New Founding Myth
- Conclusion: Memory as Warning
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
9 - Celebrating Heroes and a New Founding Myth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2019
- After the Berlin Wall
- After the Berlin Wall
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and German Terms
- Introduction: The Berlin Wall and German Historical Memory
- 1 Divergent Approaches to the Fall of the Wall
- 2 The Fight over Memory at Bernauer Strasse
- 3 Creating a Berlin Wall Memorial Ensemble at Bernauer Strasse
- 4 Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie
- 5 The Berlin Senate’s “Master Plan for Remembering the Berlin Wall”
- 6 The Federal Government and Memory of the Berlin Wall
- 7 Victims and Perpetrators
- 8 Conflicting Narratives about the Wall
- 9 Celebrating Heroes and a New Founding Myth
- Conclusion: Memory as Warning
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
Summary
Until 2009, the main focus of public discussions and commemoration of the Berlin Wall in Germany had been on the victims and particularly those who had been killed at the Wall by East German border soldiers. The Wall represented “a difficult past” that people either shied away from or addressed by commemorating the victims.
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- After the Berlin WallMemory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, pp. 337 - 393Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019