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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
''Vergangenheitsbewältigung'' is a composite German word with individual and collective significance that describes processes of coming to terms with the past (''Vergangenheit'' "past"; ''Bewältigung'' "overcome (negative, repressed and incriminating, mental injuries and guilt )"), which is perhaps best rendered in English as "struggle to overcome the (of the ) past".〔(Collins German-English Dictionary: Vergangenheitsbewältigung )〕 It is a key term in the study of post-1945 German literature and culture.
==Historical development==
''Vergangenheitsbewältigung'' describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust. The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." As a technical term in English, it relates specifically to the atrocities committed during the Third Reich, when Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany, and to both ongoing and historical concerns about the extensive compromise and co-optation of many German cultural, religious, and political institutions by Nazism. The term therefore deals at once with the concrete responsibility of the German state (West Germany assumed the legal obligations of the Reich) and of individual Germans for what took place "under Hitler," and with questions about the roots of legitimacy in a society whose invention of the Enlightenment collapsed in the face of Nazi ideology.
More recently, the term ''Vergangenheitsbewältigung'' has also been used in the former East Germany to refer to the process of working through the brutalities of Communist institutions.
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