Introduction. Placing memory in Germany
The sociology of collective memory
Prologues: the origins of West German memory
The reliable nation. Bonn is not Weimar
Expiation and explanation
Germany in the West
The return of the repressed
The reliable nation
The moral nation. Seeds of change
The grand coalition and the wider world
Social-liberal guilt
The moral nation
The normal nation. West Germany's normal problems
The new conservatism
The politics of history
Beyond Bitburg
The normal nation
Conclusions. Epilogues: Berlin is not Bonn
History, memory, and temporality.