Module Content

The lectures, which in most cases are designed to provide general background information on the topic to be addressed in the tutorial, centre on the following issues:

• the political, military, social and cultural reconstruction of Germany
• the ‘Bewältigung der Vergangenheit’ in literature, drama and film
• the German student movement and urban terrorism
• the social and political role of women in the Federal Republic and the GDR
• the development of the mass media
• the political role of the intellectual in the Federal Republic and the GDR
• migration and settlement
• the Jewish presence in the FRG and GDR