Memorializing the GDR

<p> Since unification eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. <em>Memorializing the GDR</em> provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic political and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment memory and identity it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.</p>