In 1995 almost 300 ‘Conservatives and critical Liberals’ published an appeal under the heading ‘8 May 1945 – Against Forgetting’. It cited the first President of the FRG, Theodor Heuss: ‘Basically, this 8 May 1945 remains the most tragic and questionable paradox for every one of us. Why? Because we were saved and destroyed at the same time.’ The advertisement asserted that, in contrast to Heuss's apt characterisation, the date of the unconditional surrender of the German Reich had increasingly come to be represented as ‘liberation’ by politicians and the media. This meant, according to the campaign, that there was a danger of forgetting that this day had marked not only the end of the National Socialist terror regime but also ‘the beginning of the terror of expulsion and of new oppression in the east and the beginning of the division of our country’. That was a problem, because an ‘image of the past that conceals, suppresses or qualifies these truths cannot be the basis for the self-conception of a self-assured nation that we Germans have to become in the European family of peoples in order to rule out comparable catastrophes in future’. This implies that the Germans must remember the ‘full truth’. This apparently simple demand, however, poses serious problems. In later chapters I address the question of truth as an issue of representability; this chapter explores something related but different, namely the question of the suppression, silencing or forgetting of (aspects of) the past in memory.