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Indeed, as some observers have pointed out, this is implicit in the very composition of the term Vergangenheitsbewältigung itself. Its meaning, roughly "coming to terms with the past," has reduced an expansive term - the past - to but twelve years of German history. See Bernd Hey, "Die NS-Prozesse - Versuch einer juristischen Vergangenheitsbewältigung," Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 6 (1981): 331. Most recent studies have been conservative critiques of the concept.
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Conservatives have taken up the call for the second Vergangenheitsbewältigung. See Karlheinz Weissmann, Rückruf in die Geschichte (Berlin, 1992).
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Martin Jay's "Once More an Inability to Mourn? Reflections on the Left Melancholy of Our Time," German Politics and Society 27 (Fall 1992), offers a view from a different perspective.
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Jürgen Habermas, "Die Last der doppelten Vergangenheit," Die Zeit, 13 May 1994, p. 54.
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Christian Schneider, "Historikerstreit auf bayerisch," Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). 6/7 November 1993, p. 3.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)
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Halbwachs further notes, "we can understand how we recapture the past only by understanding how it is .. . preserved in our physical surroundings." Maurice Halbwachs, The Collective Memory (New York, 1980), 140. Since Pierre Nora's work on the subject, other scholars have focused on the relationship between monuments, memory, and identity.
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The Collective Memory
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Thomas Nipperdey, "Nationalidee und Nationaldenkmal in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert," Historische Zeitschrift 3 (1968): 529-85.
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Halbwachs's assertion that memory is fundamentally rooted and preserved in social relationships - indeed, that it is condemned to oblivion without them - raises questions as to its dissemination over time. The apparent difficulty in accounting for the passing on of memory once its original bearers, those who personally experienced events, have themselves passed on, however, is addressed by pointing to the existence of "communities of memory," groups who empathetically identify with, and assign meaning to, events of the past through various commemorative ceremonies and gestures. Iwona Irwin-Zarecka, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory (New Brunswick, 1994), 47-49;
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The Bavarian revolutions sparked the most historical studies during the 1960s and 1970s and have tailed off as of late. The subject acquired the most interest among East German historians who, like Hans Beyer, aimed to demonstrate the existence of mass working-class support for the second Räterepublik, Hans Beyer, Von der November Revolution zur Räterepublik in München (Berlin, 1957).
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See also Richard Grunberger, Red Rising in Bavaria (London, 1973). Recent attention toward Kurt Eisner's role in the period has been particularly promoted by the work of his granddaughter, the journalist Freya Eisner, who has been motivated by the desire to overturn left-wing and right-wing stereotypes about Eisner's political career.
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See, most recently, Freya Eisner, "Kurt Eisners Ort in der sozialistischen Bewegung," Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte (July, 1995): 407-37.
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Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte
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The oft-cited line read by Eisner was: "Fortan ist Bayern ein Freistaat" (From this moment on, Bavaria is a republic). As will be seen, the use of the term Freistaat would be highly controversial in postwar Munich. Rathaus München/Direktorium, Stenographischer Sitzungsdienst (RMDSS)/RP, Bauausschuss, 2 February 1989, 27-34.
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It has often been speculated that Arco-Valley killed Eisner for complex psychological reasons due to his own anti-Semitic self-hatred. Bom of a Jewish mother (from the Cologne Oppenheimer banking family), Arco-Valley had been rejected for membership in the Thule-Gesellschaft because of his "impure" background - a fact that, according to many, led him to assassinate Eisner as proof of his racial trustworthiness. Wilhelm, Dichter, Denker, Fememörder, 62;
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Albert Schwarz, "Die Zeit yon 1918 bis 1933," in Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte, ed. Max Spindler, vol. 4 (Munich, 1974), 428.
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Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte
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The total death figures vary. Hans-Günther Richardi has claimed that between 30 April and 8 May 1919, some 557 people were killed. "Die kurze Herrschaft der Räte in München," SZ, 7 April 1994, p. 35.
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Wilfried Rudloff, "Auf dera Weg zum 'Hilter-Putsch': Gegenrevolutionäres Milieu und früher Nationalsozialismus in München," in Stadtmuseum München, München - "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" (Munich, 1993), 36.
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In national Reichstag elections, Munich support for the NSDAP began higher than the national total but later sank below it. Thus, in May 1924, 28.5 percent of all Münchner voted for the Völkischer Block (the successor party to the temporarily banned NSDAP), while only 6.5 percent of all Germans voted for it nationally; in May, 1928, the Nazis gained 2.6 percent of the total national vote, but 10.7 percent of the Munich vote; in September the figures were 18.3 percent nationally and 21.8 percent in the city; by July 1932, however, the figures were 37.3 percent nationally and 28.9 percent locally, and by November 1932, the figures were 33.1 percent and 24.9 percent respectively. See Clemens Vollnhals, "Der Aufstieg der NSDAP in München, 1925 bis 1933: Förderer und Gegner," in: München - "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" 157-65;
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Die Zwanziger Jahre in München
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See the catalogue for the eponymous 1993-94 exhibition at the Munich city museum, München - "Hauptstadt der Bewegung," (Munich, 1993) for the most comprehensive view of the relationship between the city and the movement.
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Freya Eisner, "Zwischen Kapitalismus und Kommunismus," Die Zeit, 18 February 1994, p. 74;
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Die Zeit
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See Hans Dollinger, Die Müncher Strassennamen: Zu Fuss durch die Geschichte unserer Stadt (Munich, 1995), 121, 56, 179, 293.
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"Gegen das Freikorps-Denkmal," Münchner Mittag, 20 December 1946, p. 5.
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Münchner Mittag
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In its place, a bronze sculpture by Josef Erber representing children at play, flanked by reliefs of scenes from local history, was erected in the fall of 1959. "Ein Kinderbaum.. .," SZ, 27 October 1959, p. 4;
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SZ
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and "Die Inschrift und das Vermächtnis aufpoliert," SZ, 23 May 1989, p. 15.
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SZ
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SZ
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Eisners Andenken ehren
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21 February
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As indicated by a local citizen's demand (in a letter to the editor in the Süddeutsche Zeitung at this same time) to restore of the original plaque at the site (demolished by the Nazis), the Weimar-era monument had clearly persisted in local memory. "Eisners Andenken ehren," SZ, 21 February 1969, p. 12.
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SZ
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"Leser schreiben uns," MM, 23 January 1969, p. 16.
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MM
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"Starkes Echo zum Thema Strassennamen," MM, 18/19 January 1969, p. 10;
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MM
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"Wo Kurt Eisner ermordert wurde . ..," SZ, 9 November 1976, p. 19. This fear was not unfounded given the destructive attacks against a plaque dedicated to Lenin on the site of his former residence in Schwabing in 1970.
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SZ
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SZ
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SZ
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SZ
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Opponents had claimed that insufficient space existed on the sidewalk site for a monument. RMDSS/RP, Bauausschuss, 24 October 1985, 382-85;
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While the commissioning of a monument would take several years to yield results, unconventional interim measures served to maintain the new interest in Eisner. On 21 February 1986, the anniversary of Eisner's death, members of the SPD-affiliated group, "The Other Bavaria," launched its action "the invisible monument," tearing up a flagstone in the Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse's sidewalk and burying a plastic painting of Eisner beneath it, before restoring the site's appearance. While the commemorative impact of this action was limited, it attested to a new impulse to recognize Eisner's symbolic importance. "Unsichtbares Denkmal für Kurt Eisner," SZ, 23 February 1986, p. 19;
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SZ
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7 November
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Christian Schneider, "Historikerstreit auf bayerisch," SZ, 6/7 November 1993, p. 3.
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SZ
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Mit Verkehrsschild und Tomatensaft
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"Mit Verkehrsschild und Tomatensaft," SZ, 25 April 1994, p. 14;
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SZ
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"Denken an einen Ermordeten," Abendzeitung, 25 April 1994, p. 12. The monument was erected by the local artists Wolfram Kastner and Eckhard Zylla.
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Abendzeitung
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"Eine Tafel erinnert jetzt an Gustav Landauer," SZ, 25/26 January 1997, p. 45. The plaque's text reads: "Gustav Landauer, 1870-1919, philosopher, translator, and briefly. People's Representative for Popular Enlightenment, was murdered at the end of the Munich Soviet Republic on May 2, 1919 in Munich-Stadelheim, as a radical socialist and violent anarchist."
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SZ
, vol.25-26
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To a degree, this failure reflects a built-in deficiency of monuments which, as many observers have pointed out, do not preserve memory to the extent commonly assumed. Whether or not one fully accepts the somewhat cynical views of Robert Musil that "there is nothing in the world so invisible as [a] monument" or James Young, that "the more memory comes to rest in its exteriorized forms, the less it is experienced internally," one must avoid the naive assumption that monuments inevitably preserve memory. Robert Musil, Gesammelte Werke (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1978), 506;
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