Im Namen der Deutschen : die Bundespräsidenten und die NS-Vergangenheit 1949-1994 / Norbert Frei.

9783406808487

München : C.H. Beck, [2023]

377 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

The Federal President speaks in his office "in the name of the Germans", especially when it comes to the Nazi past. For Theodor Heuss and his successors during the time of the Bonn Republic - Heinrich Lübke, Gustav Heinemann, Walter Scheel, Karl Carstens and Richard von Weizsäcker - this was always a way of speaking about their own contemporaries. Norbert Frei shows how the personal past was kept quiet and at the same time the tone was set for talking about National Socialism and the Holocaust in a society that first had to learn to face its history self-critically.

German

January 16, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and sources (pages 351-365) and index.