The Past In the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany

Andrew H. Beattie

DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-09150-5_2

Corpus ID: 145157204

The Past In the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany

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  title={The Past In the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany},
  author={Andrew H. Beattie},
  year={2005}
}

Andrew H. Beattie
Published 2005
Political Science

The legacies and memories of the past always inform political decisionmaking in the present, but the tumultuous nature of Germany’s twentieth-century history has focused considerable attention on the issue of “coming to terms” with the Nazi past (Vergangenheitsbewaltigung). This is a slippery term that encompasses specific attempts to bring Nazi perpetrators to account and seek justice for their victims, as well as a more general effort to face up to and remember the 12-year period of Nazi rule… Expand

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