Bill Niven is Reader in German at the Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on the ways in which West and East Germany viewed the history of the Third Reich. His recent publications include (with J.K.A.Thomaneck) Dividing and Uniting Germany (Routledge, 2000).

'vital reading for anyone interested in an insightful account of the most recent debates' - Karoline von Oppen'lucid and extraordinary well-documented survey... This book deserves to be widely read; indeed it is essential to all who study and teach courses in contemporary German politics, culture and society. - Joachim Whaley, Journal for European Studies, XXXII, 2002

• Chronology 1933–2000 Introduction: the inclusive picture 1 Concentration camp memorial sites 2 The ‘double past’ 3 Resistance 4 8 May 1945 in political discourse 5 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Victor Klemperer 6 The crimes of the Wehrmacht 7 The Walser-Bubis debate 8 The Holocaust Memorial 9 The past in the present

Bill Niven is Reader in German at the Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on the ways in which West and East Germany viewed the history of the Third Reich. His recent publications include (with J.K.A.Thomaneck) Dividing and Uniting Germany (Routledge, 2000).

'vital reading for anyone interested in an insightful account of the most recent debates' - Karoline von Oppen'lucid and extraordinary well-documented survey... This book deserves to be widely read; indeed it is essential to all who study and teach courses in contemporary German politics, culture and society. - Joachim Whaley, Journal for European Studies, XXXII, 2002

• Chronology 1933–2000 Introduction: the inclusive picture 1 Concentration camp memorial sites 2 The ‘double past’ 3 Resistance 4 8 May 1945 in political discourse 5 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Victor Klemperer 6 The crimes of the Wehrmacht 7 The Walser-Bubis debate 8 The Holocaust Memorial 9 The past in the present