Remembering the German Democratic Republic in a United Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23248242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Duncan Clarke (0000-0001-8509-3194), David Clarke (0000-0002-2315-2993), Ute Wölfel |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Remembering the German Democratic Republic (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230349698_1 |
| OpenAlex | W202200830 |
| ISBN | 9780230349698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Writing in 2001, the Harvard professor Charles S. Maier, one of the most distinguished historians of twentieth-century Germany, suggested that the memory of communism in Eastern Europe, and in East Germany in particular, was in the process of becoming a ‘cold’ memory. At the same time, he noted, the means by which the crimes of National Socialism should be commemorated remained a topic of ‘hot’ discussion, and were likely to remain so (Maier, 2001). While it is reasonable to claim, following Bill Niven (Niven, 2002, p. 5), that the post-unification period saw a reaffirmation of the central place of National Socialism in the memory culture of the Federal Republic, often in the face of attempts by some to equate the ‘two German dictatorships’, debates about how and in what context the German Democratic Republic (GDR) should be remembered are still ‘hot’ over 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cold war · Communism · Context (archaeology) · Democracy · Dictatorship · Economic history · Federal republic · German · Nazism · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Unification · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |