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dome debate: "Dom des Volkes," Der Spiegel, 15/1999, 44–48.

Reichstag graffiti: See ibid., and "Verordnete Geschichtsvergessenheit," Der Tagesspiegel, July 8, 1999.

"born on those seats": Quoted in Jane Kramer, "Living with Berlin," New Yorker, July 5, 1999, 58.

Reichstag name: "What’s in a name?" The Economist, April 17, 1999, 55.

"Berlin republic possible"; "optimistic or happy": Quoted in "With Smoked Salmon and Beer, Berlin Greets Parliament," New York Times, April 20, 1999.

"conquer it again?": Quoted in "Macht der Mauern," Der Spiegel, 22/1998, 69.

"world is watching"; "rebuild a capital": Quoted in Wise, Capital Dilemma, 60, 61.

"rednecks of the Rhine": Ellen Posner, "Hell’s Capital," Atlantic Monthly, July 1944, 95.

Spreebogen competition: Wise, Capital Dilemma, 65–67.

"modesty and dignity": Quoted in ibid., 72.

Federal Chancellery: Ibid., 72–79.

"as much as he did": Kramer, "Living with Berlin," 54.

remembrance of things past: See Peter Reichel, Politik mit der Erinnerung. Gedächtnisorte im Streit um die nationalsozialistische Verganenheit (Munich, 1995), 173–175.

Plötzensee: See Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 151–152; Peter Steinbach, "Vermächtnis oder Verfälschung? Erfahrungen mit Ausstellungen zum deutschen Widerstand," in Gerd R. Überschar, Der 20. Juli 1944. Bewertung und Rezeption des deutschen Widerstandes gegen das NS-Regime (Cologne, 1994), 171–178.

"gift to the German future": Theodor Heuss, Gedenkrede zum 20. Juli 1944 (Tübingen, 1954), 30.

Bendlerblock museum: Reichel, Politik mit der Erinnerung, 227, 231; see also Steinbach, "Vermächtnis," 171–173.

Topography of Terror: See the exhibition catalog edited by Rürup, Topography of Terror; also Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 160–169; Reichel, Politik mit der Erinnerung, 196–202; and "Verletzungen am Denk-Ort," Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dec. 16, 1992.

Villa Wannsee: See Reichel, Politik mit der Erinnerung, 193–96; "Berlin Villa, From War to Peace," New York Times, June 26, 1997; Eberhard Diepgen, "Erinnern für die Zukunft" (Berlin, 1992), 5.

"in the same place": Ian Buruma, The Wages of Guilt. Memories of War in Germany and Japan (New York, 1994), 238.

"ramp to the train-wash": "Stark belastet," Der Spiegel, 30/1993, 76.

"No trespassing": "Cutbacks Drawing a Curtain on a Holocaust Site," New York Times, Nov. 4, 1995.

"in the new Reich": George L. Mosse, Fallen Soldiers. Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars (New York, 1990), 97.

Neue Wache: See Reichel, Politik mit der Erninnerung, 231–246; Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 217–224; Wise, Capital Dilemma, 145–146; Wolf Jobst Siedler, "Wo Preussen am preußischsten war," Die Zeit, Dec. 3, 1993; "Stellen die Toten den Termin?", Berliner Zeitung, Nov. 11, 1993.

Kollwitz pietà: "Dem Schmerz eine Richtung," Der Tagesspiegel, March 19, 1993.

"murderers are not victims": "Ohne Militärparade und Glockenlaut," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. 12, 1993.

bunker discoveries: "Düstere Bunker der Geschichte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. 12, 1993; "Braune Suppe im Boden," Der Spiegel, 8/1998, 28–29; "An Inconvenient Bit of History in Berlin," San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 1, 1995; "Hitler’s Bunker Unearthed," San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 16, 1999.

"a line under the past": Michael Kleeburg, Ein Garten im Norden (Berlin, 1998), 85.

"out of Hitler’s shadow": Quoted in Buruma, Wages, 244.

"equality of oppression": "A Memorial to Gay Pain of Nazi Era Stirs Debate," New York Times, Feb. 6, 1997; "Zigeuner ohne Lobby," taz, Nov. 18, 1993.

"to the heart of Europe": Quoted in "Auf der Höhe der Zeit," Der Spiegel, 48/1997, 66.

Rosh criticism: See Kramer, Politics of Memory, 257–293; "Vom Mahnmal zum Wahnmal," Der Spiegel, 35/1998, 170–181; Michael Z. Wise, "Totem and Taboo," Lingua Franca, Dec/Jan., 1999, 38–46.

"invisible as a monument": Quoted in Wise, "Totem," 39.

"impossible assignment": Quoted in "Auf der Höhe der Zeit," 67.

"between carnival and genocide": Wise, Capital Dilemma, 149.

"a thousand times": Quoted in ibid., 150.

"Venus fly trap": Quoted in Wise, "Totem," 40.

after the elections: Ibid., 41–44.