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
4 - Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie
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
On October 31, 2004, two weeks in advance of the fifteenth anniversary of the toppling of the Wall, the director of the private Checkpoint Charlie Wall Museum, Alexandra Hildebrandt, unveiled 1,065 wooden crosses in memory of the people killed at the Berlin Wall and along the entire former East German border.
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- After the Berlin WallMemory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, pp. 161 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019