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Topic: German loneliness, Irish .... ?
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Hinterland
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posted 07 September 2004 10:33 PM
I was astonished to discover, when I lived in Germany in the 80's, that this kind of thoughtful reflection had not yet happened, despite the 40-year span between the end of the second world war and that time. I imagine German re-unification brought about a certain closure on the whole period that made people a little less brittle about the Second World War and the Holocaust, but at that time, all I found among Germans were meaningless platitudes about Kollektivschuld, an unseemly arrogance about the Wirtschaftswunder, and of course, too much Ausländer raus graffiti.I haven't been back to Germany since then, but I've gotten the feeling that with the end of the Cold War, when World attention shifted from the critical East-West division centred in that country, Germany got the chance to become normal again.
From: Québec/Ontario | Registered: Apr 2003
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