Free public lecture
The Third Reich in German Collective Memory since 1945
Professor Norbert Frei
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
University of Jena
For the Germans, more than 60 years after the end of World War II, the Nazi past is still highly present. The modus of remembrance, however, is changing. While the last generation of contemporaries of the “Third Reich” is passing away, new questions arise about the future meaning of its legacy. In his lecture, Norbert Frei recalls the painful process of “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” (coming to terms with the past) which, after a decade of neglect in the 1950s, started to develop in West Germany from the early 1960s onwards. As a result, reflecting on the Nazi past became an intrinsic feature of Germany’s political culture. And the question is: Will this last?
- Date:
- Wednesday 8 July 2009
- Time:
- 6:30pm
- Location:
- Theatre 1
ICT Building
111 Barry Street, Carlton - RSVP:
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June McBeth, School of Historical Studies
(03) 8344 5963 / jmcbeth@unimelb.edu.au
Norbert Frei’s Australian tour has been organised and funded by the Goethe Institute Australia.