Germany: facing the Nazi past today
Literator
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Germany: facing the Nazi past today | |
| Creator | Laurien, I. | |
| Description | This article gives an overview of the changing debate on National Socialism and the question of guilt in German society. Memory had a different meaning in different generations, shaping distinct phases of dealing with the past, from silence and avoidance to sceptical debate, from painful “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” to a general memory of suffering. In present-day Germany, memory as collective personal memory has faded away. At the same time, literature has lost its role as a main medium to mass media like cinema and television. Furthermore, memory has become fragmented. Large groups of members of the German society, like immigrants, see the past from a different perspective altogether. Although the remembrance of the time of National Socialism is still a distinctive part of Germany’s political culture, it has become more generalised, with “Holocaust memory” as a globalised symbol for a fundamental “break” in Western culture. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2009-07-16 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v30i3.89 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 30, No 3 (2009); 93-114 Literator; Vol 30, No 3 (2009); 93-114 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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