The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, with a New Preface

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.

Author: Charles S. Maier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03/30/1998
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.09w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780674929777
ISBN10: 0674929772
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Germany
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust