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Articles
Klaus Naumann

Displacement as an issue of German self-understanding




English summary

European histories


In order for there to be solidarity within the enlarged EU, it will be necessary to develop a broader historical consciousness that accommodates the experiences of the new members. And if Russia's relations with its neighbours are to be harmonious, the taboos surrounding the Great Victory will need to be addressed. [more]

Introduction
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Jan-Werner Müller European memory politics revisited
Siegfried Beer
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Thomas von Ahn
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Philipp Ther
The burden of history and the trap of memory
Jean Meyer
Memories and histories: The new Spanish Civil War
Claus Leggewie
Equally criminal? Totalitarian experience and European memory
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
The geopolitics of memory
Éva Kovács
The mémoire croisée of the Shoah
Eva-Clarita Onken
Latvian history in the process of democratization
François Dosse
Historicizing the traces of memory
Patrick Garcia
Politics of memory
Jean-Pierre Minaudier
Incompatible memories?
Timothy Snyder
Balancing the books
Isolde Charim
Historical myths new and old
Andreas Langenohl
State visits
Lev Gudkov
The fetters of victory
Volker Hage
Buried feelings
ll'ya Kukulin
The regulation of pain
Adam Phillips
The forgetting museum
Christian Semler
Is the tide of German memory turning?
Klaus Naumann
Displacement as an issue of German self-understanding
Vita Matiss, Tzvetan Todorov
Memory of evil, enticement to good
Pierre Nora
Reasons for the current upsurge in memory
Ronit Lentin
Postmemory, received history and the return of the Auschwitz code
Christoph Kleßmann
Dealing with the recent past
To better understand the trajectory of "flight and displacement" as a focal point of the post-war politics of history, one must examine the dominant discourse on constitutional law in the Federal Republic of Germany. The decision to apply the theory of the continuation of the German Reich to the newly established West German state placed the issues of contested borders, displacement, status and compensation, and a specific concept of German citizenship, at the core of German self-understanding. The pre-unification Federal Republic cultivated an ambivalent identity situated between "interim status", "newly established", and "successor to the Reich". The results were political blockades as well as unforeseen opportunities for development. There was no need to lift the taboo on the subject of "displacement", since it was written into the form of statehood adopted by the Federal Republic of Germany.

 



Published 2005-04-21


Original in German
First published in Mittelweg 36 3/2005 (German version)

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