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12 - Strangers at Home

from Part IV - A Lost Homeland: 1930–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Shulamit Volkov
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Tel-Aviv University
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This chapter takes German history all the way up to the early years of the twenty-first century. It tells the tale of the all-German youth revolt of 1968 and of the later students’ revolt in Frankfurt am Main. Moving on to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, it then concentrates on the issue of remembering the National Socialist past and commemorating the Holocaust in the new Germany, beginning with the Historians’ Debate in the 1980s and ending with the later, more public and more political controversies, till the scandal around the festive speech by Martin Walser in the Paulskirche and the various responses to it. Most important among these was surely that of Ignaz Bubis, and this man’s biography, a rather tragic tale again, is concisely told in this chapter. Finally, a discussion of the controversies around the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered European Jews closes the chapter – and the book, bringing the story all the way to the new millennium.

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Germany through Jewish Eyes
A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
, pp. 203 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Strangers at Home
  • Shulamit Volkov, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: Germany through Jewish Eyes
  • Online publication: 14 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009506465.013
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  • Strangers at Home
  • Shulamit Volkov, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: Germany through Jewish Eyes
  • Online publication: 14 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009506465.013
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  • Strangers at Home
  • Shulamit Volkov, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: Germany through Jewish Eyes
  • Online publication: 14 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009506465.013
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