What is Germany the powerful new center of a newly reorganized Europe? Orrather can there be a new Germany? And if so what would it be?After the crimes of the N... » 

What is Germany the powerful new center of a newly reorganized Europe? Orrather can there be a new Germany? And if so what would it be?After the crimes of the Nazis the Cold War and the subsequent division ofGermany the unification of Germany and of Europe these questions aredifficult and vital. This volume of new work is not a collection by likeminded usual suspects. Instead the editors have brought together radicallydifferent viewpoints and concerns. Richard van Weizsacker former President ofthe Federal Republic of Germany reflects on Goethes legacy and the process ofEuropean union while the filmmaker Monika Treut addresses the fate of Germancinema and the peril of international oblivion. Each of the contributorshowever is possessed of a passionate interest in what Germany is and is tobecome. Writing on Berlins new Jewish Museum and other memorials the state ofmulticulturalism in Germany or future of German culture in a unified Europethese voices lay before us the questions that face not only Germany but anyoneconcerned with Germanys history and the future of Europe. «