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• W2056530898 abstract "Selective Memory: How the Law Affects What We Remember and Forget about the Past-The Case of East Germany This is an essay about public memory and about the ways in which the law selects and shapes our recollections of the to fit the purposes of those who dominate the present. Public memory works in ways very different from the haphazard and fickle habits of our personal memory. As individuals, we have no power over our recollections: We forget what we would like to remember, remember what we would like to forget, are at the mercy of such volatile reminders as smell and taste (remember Proust's madeleines), and have to accept that we recall events not only because they were important, but that events become important just because we remember them. In our individual memories, the rules over the present. In public memory, the present rules over the past. In every generation, those in positions of authority decide which of the names and events that preceded them are worthy of remembrance. Official history is chosen as much as it is inherited. Take an example: the construction of public monuments. Before the cloth is pulled from the memorial on dedication day, its hero must be picked, funds must be allotted, land bought, architects and sculptors must be hired. All these are conscious and, in a democracy, often contentious choices in which each decisionmaker will push for that version of the which best advances his interests in the present. A public monument will not be built unless its builders are convinced that by honoring the they also will honor themselves. Rarely do nations build monuments to immortalize their shame. America has built no memorial to slavery. And if the Germans have such difficulties reaching decisions on their Holocaust Memorial, it is because the world at large will not allow them to achieve what nations usually achieve with monuments, that is, to find at least some rehabilitation and satisfaction in building it. If public memory thus serves not only to recall the but also to legitimate the present, it needs to be selective: preserve those memories most flattering to current users and reject those most prone to cause them embarrassment. Law seems a likely candidate to help in this selection process. It is an expert both on matters of the and on issues of legitimacy. Law routinely hands out verdicts of guilt and innocence. It defines our prototypes of model citizens and their opposites: the prudent merchant, the reckless driver. It validates those events that we approve of and invalidates those of which we don't: by honoring promises, punishing wrongdoings, by rehabilitating victims or by offering compensation for losses. In doing so, law has developed rules on how to investigate the past: for instance, by assigning burdens of proof, or by devising criteria to distinguish reliable from unreliable evidence. And as a discipline relying heavily on the written word, law has helped to assemble some of our most valuable records of the in courthouses and archives. It is both an important source and an interpreter of history. In this article I examine how legal institutions participate in the production of public memory by filtering information about the past. Law, I shall show, has a significant say on what we remember and forget about history. It is an important medium for defining our past. This is a rather sweeping claim and I shall try to specify and narrow it by focusing on that particular slice of history with which I am most familiar: the legal history of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Germany is a good subject for my kind of study. Since reunification, it has had to absorb and integrate 40 years of East German history into the collective memory of a nation that, until then, had largely ignored what happened on the other side of the Berlin Wall. There is much talk today in Germany about the Aufarbeitung (literally, the working over) of its recent history-a very German word that is usually translated as coming to terms with the past (on whose terms? …" @default.
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