Relentless Reckoning: Why Germany’s past must decide its future

Categories Project, Working Paper

Paper for course about Germany and the European Union:

Last year [2017], the German military police discovered a stockpile of Nazi military memorabilia when they searched a Bundeswehr barrack. Since then, the German government implemented more stringent security screening processes for Bundeswehr applicants, but this is only one facet of a much larger issue (Eddy). This is not the sign of a nation that has fully dealt with its dark past. Germany must continue to reckon with its Nazi past, but the nation should view Vergangenheitsbewältigung as a source of national strength, not as a weakness.

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