Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany
Immigrating into the past
On November 6, 1959, ten years after returning to West Germany in the wake of the Nazi period and Holocaust, Theodor W. Adorno addressed teachers from the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation with a lecture in Wiesbaden whose central question continues to echo more than a half-century later: “Was bedeutet: Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit?” – “What does working through the past mean?” In his lecture, the philosopher Adorno distinguished between different modalities for confronting the difficult history of National Socialism and argued powerfully against the desire he saw in the German society of the 1950s to “close ...
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