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Shame-Influenced Legislation: On a Little-Noticed Motive Behind German Memory Laws

"The Shoah fills us Germans with shame." With this sentence from her 2008 speech before the Israeli Knesset, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel illustrated what is now recognized in social and cultural research: Shame about Germany's Nazi past is a central theme in the discourse on the politics of memory in Germany. However, shame has so far been largely ignored in the question of whether and with what consequences it also influences German law on re…
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"The Shoah fills us Germans with shame." With this sentence from her 2008 speech before the Israeli Knesset, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel illustrated what is now recognized in social and cultural research: Shame about Germany's Nazi past is a central theme in the discourse on the politics of memory in Germany. However, shame has so far been largely ignored in the question of whether and with what consequences it also influences German law on re…

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verfassungsblog.de broke the news on Friday, October 23, 2026.
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