Ends and Beginnings
All we are are the stories we tell. — Leroy Little Bear It has been a little over three weeks since Geschichte der Gegenwart (GdG) […]
Memory
Refusing the Extended Hand
Allow me some genuine modesty: I come to you not as an historian but just as as an unspecified writer—albeit one obsessed with history, and […]
Stones Can Talk Back: Vergangenheitsbewältigung Revisited
The German Catechism, as laid out in Dirk Moses’ essay, was not always as binding as it now seems. Not long ago, in 2017, Benjamin […]
A Plea for More Balance
Anyone who has read Dirk Moses’ recent article “The Catechism of the Germans” can hardly not be impressed by the power of the writing and […]
On the Misleading Framing of Plausible Insights
Dirk Moses published an important, interesting and timely piece on what the describes as the “catechism” of German Holocaust remembrance. The piece has sparked an […]
Confessions of an Ex-Believer
I read Dirk Moses’ provocative piece with a series of mixed emotions: widespread agreement and internal nodding regarding the general substance, if perhaps not the […]
Does Holocaust Memory Still Matter?
In the heart of Vienna, a stone’s throw from university’s main compound, stands a statue of an antisemite. It celebrates Karl Lueger, the charismatic mayor […]
“Sieferle von links”: A Fair Criticism?
Unfortunately, in one crucial aspect, yes. The problem lies in the reified religious language of Dirk Moses’s polemic, concentrated in his evocation of Heinrich von […]
On the ‘German Catechism’
Dirk Moses’ provocative intervention into the historical dimensions of German political culture may take its title from Kleist, but its substance arguably deals with more […]
Priests, Catechisms and Heretics: Some Thoughts on Dirk Moses’ Remarks
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, NeilGregor.com In a spirited, provocative […]
