PROF. MARCUSE

GERMAN HISTORY SINCE 1945

HIST 133C


UC Santa Barbara

WINTER 2000

"The Shadows of Bitburg / Controversial Reconciliation"
Cover of Newsmagazine Der Spiegel on Apr. 29, 1985,
prior to President Reagan's visit to the Bitburg military cemetery

READER TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. Ursula Duba, "The Master Race"

    2. 1999 poem by the German-American author (b. 1939) of Tales from a Child of the Enemy
  2. Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, "German-American Partnership" (Apr. 1993 speech)

    3. Vital Speeches of the Day, 489 (page one only)
  3. Prof. Marcuse, "Dachau 1945: Three Myths and Three Inversions"

    4. Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 (2000)
  4. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes on his Sept. 1946 speech in Stuttgart

    5. in: James Byrnes, Speaking Freely (1947), 187-191
  5. George Marshall, Mar. 1947 speech in Moscow: "The U.S. Wants One Germany"

    6. Speech by the US Secretary of State, in Vital Speeches of the Day, 398f
  6. Wife, Mother or Partner?

    7. Eva Kolinsky, Women in Contemporary Germany (Berg, 1993), 46-54.
  7. The Politicization of Private Life

    8. Ute Frevert, Women in German History (Berg, 1990), 287-303.
  8. President Eisenhower, letter to Chancellor Adenauer, July 23, 1953

    9. Documents on Germany, 1944-1961, 141-144
  9. Willy Brandt (mayor of West Berlin), lecture at Columbia Univ., March 1961

    10. Vital Speeches of the Day, 381-384
  10. Premier Khrushchev, memorandum to President Kennedy in Vienna, June 4, 1961

    11. Documents on Germany, 1944-1961, 642-645
  11. Premier Khrushchev, Moscow speech about Germany, June 21, 1961

    12. Documents on Germany, 1944-1961, 663-666
  12. East German Government, decree regarding travel in Berlin, Aug. 13, 1961

    13. Documents on Germany, 1944-1961, 723-726
  13. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, speech before Parliament, August 18, 1961

    14. Vital Speeches of the Day 27(1961), 706-709.
  14. Lyndon Johnson, Berlin Speech, Aug. 19, 1961 (Docs. on Germany, 1944-1961, 741ff)
  15. John F. Kennedy, Berlin Speech, June 26, 1963 (Public Papers of the Presidents)
  16. Richard Nixon, Berlin Speech, Feb. 27, 1969 (Public Papers of the Presidents)
  17. Jimmy Carter, Berlin Speech, July 15, 1978 (Public Papers of the Presidents)
  18. Ronald Reagan, Berlin Speech, June 12, 1987 (Public Papers of the Presidents)
  19. William Clinton, Berlin Speech, July 12, 1994 (Public Papers of the Presidents)
  20. Ronald Reagan, Remarks at Bitburg Air Base, May 5, 1985

    21. in: Geoffrey Hartman (ed.), Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective (Indiana UP, 1986), 259-61
  21. President Richard von Weizsäcker, May 8, 1985 parliamentary speech

    22. in: Geoffrey Hartman (ed.), Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective (Indiana UP, 1986), 262-73.
  22. The Troubled Emergence of an Idea

    23. Dirk Philipsen, We were the People: Voices from East Germany . 1989 (Duke, 1993), 35-55
  23. Fear, Guilt, and Revenge

    24. John Borneman, After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin (Basic Books, 1991), 150-73
  24. German Citizenship and Naturalization

    25. German Information Center, New York, Feb. 1993 and June 1999.
  25. T. Mehr and R. Sylvester, "The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhüttenstadt"

    26. Granta, 42(Winter 1992), 135-143.
  26. Theodor Adorno, Education after Auschwitz (1966 radio presentation)

    27. Modified translation based on Schreier and Heyl (eds.), Never Again! (1997), 1-8

    author: H. Marcuse