The Unmasterable Past

History, Holocaust, and German National Identity

With a new preface

Charles S. Maier

    Preface, 1997

    Preface to the Original Edition

    Introduction

    The Stakes of the Controversy

    Habermas among the Historians

    A Holocaust like the Others? Problems of Comparative History

    German History as Case History

    A Usable Past? Museums, Memory, and Identity

    Epilogue: Whose Holocaust? Whose History?

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: The Unmasterable Past
  • A photo of the author

Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, and the author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany.