non-German German and the German German: dilemmas of identity after the Holocaust.

Discusses the proposition that the Federal Republic has developed a healthy democratic culture around the memory of the Holocaust Symbolizing the relationship between the Federal Republic's liberal political culture and honest reckoning with the past, an enormous memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe has been constructed adjacent to the Bundestag and Brandenburg Gate in the national capital. The memorial's significance is underlined by the fact that states usually erect monuments to their fallen soldiers, not to the victims of these soldiers. In the eyes of many, the West German and, since 1990, the united German experiences have exemplified how posttotalitarian and postgenocidal societies "come to terms with the past." Germany now seems no different from the rest of Europe, or indeed from the West generally. Jews from Eastern Europe are as happy to settle there as they are to emigrate to Israel, the United States, or Australia.