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The Legacies of De-Nazification and Anti-Fascism in Modern Germany

This lecture explores Germany's complex process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past) after World War II, examining the end of de-Nazification in the West and the formal adoption of anti-fascism as ideology in East Germany. It discusses critical voices from literary figures of the 1960s, the impact of functionalist architecture, Cold War tensions, and the role of the Stasi. The lecture also addresses the evolution of scholarly research on the Holocaust, immigration issues, and the sociopolitical changes leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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The Legacies of De-Nazification and Anti-Fascism in Modern Germany

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  1. HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013 Lecture Twenty-One: Vergangenheitsbewältigung

  2. Art After Auschwitz? • The End of De-Nazification in the West • “Anti-Fascism” as Formal East German Ideology • Critical Voices -- Gruppe 47 • Functionalist Architecture and Rebuilding the Cities • A Silent Generation

  3. Cold War Tensions • Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact • American Military Presence • Connections between East and West before and after the Wall • End of Reunification Idea? • Spying -- Internal and External • The Staatssicherheitsdienst (Stasi)

  4. A New Generation Questions the Nazi Past • Literature and the Task of Interpreting the Nazi Era -- Böll, Grass • Arendt -- Eichmann in Jerusalem • The Fischer Controversy • Beginnings of Scholarly Research on the Holocaust

  5. Germany in the 60s and 70s • Gastarbeiter and Immigration to Germany • End of the CDU Era in the West • 1968 in West Germany • The Stagnation of East Germany • Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik • Varieties of Anti-Establishment Radicalism -- APO, Baader-Meinfof Gang/RAF, the Green Party

  6. The Historikerstreit and Dealing with the Past • The Sonderweg Thesis • Nolte vs. Habermas on German Responsibility • A “Normal Nation”? • Routine of the East/West Division

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