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Hope Harrison, After the Berlin Wall

Harrison, Hope, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 478 p.

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The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of the Berlin Wall and examines their role in the creation of a new German national narrative. With victims, perpetrators and heroes, the Berlin Wall has joined the Holocaust as an essential part of German collective memory. Key Wall anniversaries have become signposts marking German views of the past, its relevance to the present, and the complicated project of defining German national identity. Considering multiple German approaches to remembering the Wall via memorials, trials, public ceremonies, films, and music, this revelatory work also traces how global memory of the Wall has impacted German memory policy. It depicts the power and fragility of state-backed memory projects, and the potential of such projects to reconcile or divide.

Dr. Hope M. Harrison is an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University. She worked on this book while a fellow at the Wilson Center from 2014-2016.

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Emilia Robin (20 octobre 2019). Hope Harrison, After the Berlin Wall. Faire l'histoire de la guerre froide. Consulté le 22 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/pdis


Emilia Robin

Chercheuse associée à l'UMR SIRICE. Violons d'Ingres : guerre froide, médiation scientifique, logiciels libres

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