Rewriting the German past : history and identity in the new Germany / edited by Reinhard Alter and Peter Monteath.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Normalization or renationalization? on reinterpreting the German past / Konrad Jarausch -- Perplexed normalcy: German identity after unification / Hans-Georg Betz -- Defining the Fatherland: immigration and nationhood in pre-and postunification Germany / Hermann Kurthen -- The "Generation of 1989": a new political generation? / Claus Leggewie -- The German sonderweg reconsidered : continuities and discontinuities in modern German history / Reinhard Kühnl -- The German sonderweg after unification / Lutz Niethammer -- Cultural modernity and political identity: from the historians' dispute to the literature dispute / Reinhard Alter -- Reckoning with the past: heroes, victims, and villains in the history of the German Democratic Republic / Mary Fulbrook -- Rewriting the history of the German Democratic Republic: the work of the Commission of Inquiry / Hermann Weber -- Historiography in the German Democratic Republic: rereading the history of national socialism / Wolfgang Ruge -- Rewriting East German history: the role of the churches in the collapse of the German Democratic Republic / John Moses and Gregory Munro -- The path to academic freedom: an East German perspective / Siegfried Hoyer -- Jena and the end of history / Peter Monteath.