Introduction. Placing memory in Germany -- The sociology of collective memory -- Prologues: the origins of West German memory -- The reliable nation. Bonn is not Weimar -- Expiation and explanation -- Germany in the West -- The return of the repressed -- The reliable nation -- The moral nation. Seeds of change -- The grand coalition and the wider world -- Social-liberal guilt -- The moral nation -- The normal nation. West Germany's normal problems -- The new conservatism -- The politics of history -- Beyond Bitburg -- The normal nation -- Conclusions. Epilogues: Berlin is not Bonn -- History, memory, and temporality
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