germany: from holocaust to normalcy
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The most powerful woman in the world, Angela Merkel, was re-elected Sunday as Germany's Chancellor for her third term. Once again the world's attention is on Germany. What is the root of the country's Öffentlichkeitsarbeitswunder or Public Relations Miracle? Open admission of responsibility for the Holocaust? How about the Feminization of the Fatherland? Here is an overview that may provide answers to these questions.TRANSCRIPT
Germany: From Holocaust to Normalcy Deutschland: Von Holocaust zu Normalität
Kevin M. Brett
September 2013
1945: Die Götterdämmerung
“A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will
not be erased.” – Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank at
the Nürnberg Trails.
“It is for the rising German generation … unanimously
announcing their desire: not for a German Europe, but for a
European Germany.” – Author, Novelist Thomas Mann
2013: Öffentlichkeitsarbeitswunder
Germany’s Public Relations Miracle
Zwölf Jahren
12 Years (1933-1945)
Occupation, Division, Die Mauer
Das Wirtschaftswunder
Acknowledgement, Contrition,
Repentance
Die Mauer Fällt
Wiedervereinigung
Die Zeit: 1945-2013
Die Umwelt
Feminization of the Fatherland
Der Erfolg (Success)
Made in Germany
Die Zukunft/The Future?