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- 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
1 - Divergent Approaches to the Fall of the Wall
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
With the toppling of the Berlin Wall and soon thereafter the East German SED regime, Horst Schmidt wanted to make sure “the murderers” at the Wall would pay for what they had done. His twenty-year-old son Michael had been killed on December 1, 1984 while trying to escape across the Berlin Wall. When the Wall fell, Horst and his wife Dorothea “could not feel anything of the excitement…they would have felt without Michael’s tragic death.
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- After the Berlin WallMemory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, pp. 30 - 71Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019