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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013. Lecture Twenty-One: Vergangenheitsbew ä ltigung. 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
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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