Free Download Jeremy Brooke Straughn, "How Memory Divides "
English | ISBN: 1138088935 | 2021 | 228 pages | EPUB | 985 KB
This book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany in the wake of German reunification. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of the former German Democratic Republic were confronted with a dilemma: Were they already Germans without qualification, like their compatriots in the West? Or did they remain "East Germans" for the time being, with an identity tied to their distinct past, as if they were foreigners who had migrated without leaving home?