TY - BOOK AU - Harrison,Hope Millard TI - After the Berlin Wall: memory and the making of the new Germany, 1989 to the present SN - 1107278899 AV - DD290.24 .H37 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge, New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 KW - Historiography KW - Collective memory KW - Germany KW - International relations KW - National characteristics, German KW - History KW - Unification, 1990 KW - Politics and government KW - 1990- KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The Berlin Wall and German historical memory -- Divergent approaches to the fall of the Wall -- The fight over memory at Bernauer Strasse -- Creating a Berlin Wall memorial ensemble at Bernauer Strasse -- Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie -- The Berlin senate's master plan for remembering the Wall -- The federal government and the Berlin Wall -- Victims and perpetrators -- Conflicting narratives about the Wall -- Heroes to celebrate and a new founding myth -- Conclusion: Memory as warning N2 - "Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, people around the world still remember the joyous drama of that night and the days and nights that followed. Even at a time before smartphones and twitter helped people experience an event together, the surprise opening of the Berlin Wall was viewed by millions on television sets and splashed across headlines around the globe. For Berliners and Germans themselves, dramatic days followed which would change their lives and their country"-- UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107278899 ER -