Memory debates and the built environment since unification
'Working through' the GDR past
A shifting memorial culture
Memory, monuments and memorialization
Notions of, and problems with, collective forms of memory
Monuments, memorials and 'memory markers'
Socialist icons: from heroes to villains?
The role of monuments in the GDR
Transition: October 1989 to October 1990
Eastern Berlin I: from unification to Lenin's fall
Eastern Berlin II: from the commission's recommendations to
Thalmann's survival
Demolition debates beyond Berlin: Chemnitz's 'nischel'
Modification: a modern makeover for Halle's flag monument
Relocation: finding a new home for Leipzig's Karl Marx relief
Conclusion: the ever-present narrative of 1989
Soviet special camps: reassessing a repressed past
Special camps and interrogation centres
Commemoration without monumentalization: representing silenced memories at Buchenwald
Emotive symbolism and reconciliation at Funfeichen
Breaking the silence: historical revision in Greifswald
A monument without answers? Haftstatte Prenzlauer Allee, Berlin


Conclusion: Revoking silence
17 June 1953 uprisings: remembering a failed revolution
Conflicting interpretations in Berlin: Katharina Karrenberg, Wolfgang Ruppel and beyond
Remembering Hennigsdorf's steelworkers
Tank tracks in Leipzig
Tank tracks in Dresden
Conclusion: diverse remembrance
The Berlin Wall: historical document, tourist magnet or urban eyesore?
The early post-Wende years: from commodification to preservation
Ubergange: Remembering border crossings and transitions
Bernauer Strasse wall memorial (Part I): peripheral remembrance?
Victimhood and visibility I: Remembering child vicitms in Treptow
Victimhood and visibility II: White crosses in duplicate
Victimhood and visibility III: The Freedom Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie
Towards decentralised remembrance: the gesamtkonzept and Bernauer Strasse (Part II)
Conclusion: Shifting remembrance
Remembering the 'peaceful revolution' and German unity
Building national memory? Berlin's freedom and unity monument
Remembering the Leipzig demonstrations: the Nikolaikirchhof and beyond
Schwerin's controversial remembrance of the round table
Swords into ploughshares: Dessau's peace bell
Transforming the fortunes of Magdeburg? the development of a citizens' monument
A truly democratic project? Plauen's Wende monument
Conclusion: The concrete legacy of the peaceful revolution
Conclusion: Beyond the palimpsest
What remains?
Dominant narratives
Dialogic remembrance and entangled memories.