1999: the cultural logics of the Berlin Republic. From: The Germanic Review | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Hell, Julia; Von Moltke, Johannes | COPYRIGHT 2005 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Speaking at the first session of the Bundestag held in the Reichstagsgebaude on April 19, 1999, the parliament's president, Wolfgang Thierse, took an unequivocal stance on the ever-volatile issues of historical revisionism and the push toward "normalization": "All debates that aim at drawing a line under German history of this century," Thierse proclaimed, "are led ad absurdum on this site. This place is history, it allows no exit from history, and it does not allow us to draw a fi...