ABSTRACT

The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly in their own words, this book features the voices of those Germans who have suffered as well as profited from the transformations in German society since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's reunification in October 1990.

chapter |12 pages

The New Germanies

West-Side Stories, East-Side Stories

part 1|59 pages

Berlin, West and East

chapter 1|40 pages

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

part 2|128 pages

Germany, East and West

chapter 3|12 pages

Leipzig

The God That Failed

chapter 4|14 pages

Plauen/Leipzig

Marks Über Marx

chapter 5|8 pages

TÜbingen

The Great Red Hope?

chapter 6|10 pages

Weimar

Class(Room) Conflict

chapter 7|28 pages

O Buchenwald!

chapter 8|24 pages

Röcken/Weimar

Resurrection of the Antichrist?

chapter 9|14 pages

Staufen in Breisgau

Recalling the “Hitler Olympics”

chapter 10|6 pages

The “Munich Massacre” at 30

chapter 11|10 pages

Kassel: Of War Crimes and Contrition

part 3|71 pages

Through American Eyes, from Afar

chapter 12|16 pages

Soul Murder in the Grass

chapter 13|24 pages

Germany's Not-So-Little Black Book

chapter 14|6 pages

Power, Forgiveness, and Schindler's list

chapter 15|12 pages

The German Banana Republic, R.I.P.?