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The Weight of Memory: Germany's Struggle with Vergangenheitsbewältigung
After World War II, Germany faced a question no other nation had to answer: how do you rebuild a country when your own history is a crime scene? This episode follows the long, painful process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung — Germany's 'working off the past.' From the denazification tribunals of the late 1940s to the Auschwitz trials of the 1960s, from Chancellor Willy Brandt's Kniefall in Warsaw to the rise of the Historikerstreit in the 1980s, we trace how Germans argued, evaded, and eventually confronted the Nazi legacy. We explore the silence of the Adenauer era, the…
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