Week 2: Reunification
Required Reading
- Fulbrook, The People’s State, 291-298.
- Documents from Konrad Jarausch and Volker Gransow (eds.), ‘Documents 16, 17, 18, and 3’, in Uniting Germany: Documents and Debates, 1944-1993 (Berghahn, 1994), pp. 175-179, 188-199 (CE).
Suggested Reading:
- Daphne Berdahl, Where the World Ended: Reunification and Identity in the German Borderland (Univ. of California Press, 1997).
- Wolfgang Engler, Die Ostdeutschen. Kunde von einem verlorenen Land (Aufbau Verlag, 1999).
- Richard Evans, ‘German Reunification in Historical Perspective’, in Rereading German History (Routledge, 1997): 213-220.
- Andreas Huyssen, ‘Nation, Race, and Immigration: German Identities after the Unification’, in Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (Routledge, 1995): 67-84.
- Konrad Jarausch (ed), After unity: reconfiguring German identities. (Berghahn Books, 1997).
- Axel Schildt, Ankunft im Westen: Ein Essay zur Erfolgsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik (S. Fischer, 1999).