What has "coming to terms with the past" meant in post-World War II Germany?
From history to memory to the "history of memory"

Contains reviews of three books:

• Niemand ist frei von der Geschichte: Die nationalsozialistische Herrschaft in den Debatten des Deutschen Bundestages, by Helmut Dubiel (Munich: Hanser, 1999)
• Geschichtsvergessenheit/Geschichteversessenheit: Vom Umgang mit deutschen Vergangenheiten nach 1945," by Aleida Assmann and Ute Frevert (Stuttgart: DVA, 1999).
• Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001, by Harold Marcuse (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001)