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June 25, 1999: The German Bundestag resolved by a large majority to erect a ""Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"" in Berlin. This was preceded by a protracted controversy, which is to be counted among the most important self-understanding debates of the emerging ""Berlin Republic"". On the basis of the journalistic statements, the main lines of conflict in the monument dispute are analyzed in this book. A second level of investigation is the artistic drafts, which vividly illustrate the difficulties of the project. From a cultural-theoretical, historical-didactic and memory-ethical perspective, the focus is at the same time on more general questions: How does historical memory change due to the growing time lag to National Socialism? What can mourning for those murdered during the Nazi regime still mean today?

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Jan-Holger Kirsch ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam und verantwortlicher Redakteur der Zeitschrift

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