New tussles over Bismarck and an old bogeyman in the dispute over the German Empire: two debates

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XLVII
4. Introduction 1
5. The German Empire and its Continuities
6. New tussles over Bismarck and an old bogeyman in the dispute over the German Empire: two debates 25
7. The Herero and Nama genocide and German history 41
8. “Fritz Fischer reloaded?” The new dispute over the old empire 63
9. Controversy in the time of COVID-19: the dispute over the Hohenzollern’s relationship to National Socialism 85
10. National Socialism and the Second World War
11. Marginalised, invisible? Struggles over the recognition of the “Third Reich’s” forgotten victims 105
12. War of extermination and German occupation. The Second World War, regimes of sayability, grand narratives and the lacunae of remembrance 129
13. The “forgotten East”: the German war of annihilation against Poland and the Soviet Union and the blind spots of German remembrance 149
14. War and history: Russia, Ukraine and the problem of historical comparison 171
15. Holocaust and multidirectional memory
16. Lived multidirectionality: Historikerstreit 2.0 and the politics of Holocaust memory 189
17. The catechisms of activism. The significance of Israel in the “historians’ dispute 2.0” 209
18. “The German debate is marked by obsessions”: an affective field and its consequences 225
19. Hermeneutic harassment: the undermining of Jewish-Arab and Arab-Jewish solidarity 251
20. The dispute over Achille Mbembe and the question of interpretive sovereignty over history 269
21. The returning boomerang: documenta fifteen, German debates and lacunae 285
22. East Germany, West Germany and Reunification
23. The battle for the future: GDR history amid clashing interests 305
24. The GDR as a migration society and the racist violence of the “Baseball Bat Years”: the path to the Berlin Republic 325
25. Voids of memory: “guest workers” in West Germany 343
26. Berlin is not Bonn is not Weimar. Vying political interpretations of the German republics 359
27. The Berlin Republic: Marginalisations and new master narratives
28. “Fallen among the Germans.” Black German identity and the literary struggle for recognition 375
29. Whose “leading culture”? Debates on Islam and Almanya’s hidden memories 395
30. On the “splatter of birdshit,” Bismarck and German victims: the New Right and the struggle over the German culture of remembrance 411
31. Mölln, the NSU, Halle and Hanau – far-right terror, continuity and German (non-) remembrance 429
32. Between nation and association of states: historical discourses on Europe and the crises of the early twenty-first century 445
33. Authors