HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014

1. HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2014 Lecture Twenty-One: Vergangenheitsbewältigung

2. Culture in East and West • The Culture and Architecture of Rebuilding • Socialist Realism in the DDR • Literature and the Task of Interpreting the Nazi Era in the BRD – Gruppe 47, Böll, Grass • The Fischer Controversy • Beginnings of Scholarly Research on the Holocaust

3. Germany in the 60s and 70s • From Ulbricht to Honecker in the East • The Widening Economic Gap between East and West • Gastarbeiterand Immigration to Germany • End of the CDU Era in the West • 1968 in West Germany • Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik • Varieties of Anti-Establishment Radicalism -- APO, Baader-Meinfof Gang/RAF, the Green Party

4. The Historikerstreit and the New Generation’s Response to Nazi Era • The SonderwegThesis • Generational Criticism • Nolte vs. Habermas on German Responsibility • A “Normal Nation”? • Acceptance of Long Term Division

5. The Path to Unification • Continuing Emigration Problem of DDR • Weaknesses in Entire Soviet System • Gorbachev and DDR 40th Anniversary Celebration • Neues Forum and Leipzig Protests

6. The Revolution of 1989 • Opening of the Berlin Wall and the Migration Flood • Helmut Kohl’s Deal • East German Elections 1990 • Adoption of the West German Mark • Reunification Treaty