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Post-war German politicians and thinkers so often called for a Vergangenheisbewältigung??for a “coming to terms with the past,” or, to translate the word more literally, a mastery...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hitler's Downfall Rescreened | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...speech, Hannah Arendt speaks of the violence that is necessary for any such Vergangenheitsbewältigung. She argued that any such attempt to master the violence of history is inevitably another Bewältigung??that is, must involve another violence and another bid for mastery...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hitler's Downfall Rescreened | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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