In Evans's opinion, a social historical approach with the emphasis on society was a better way of understanding the German past.

He emphasizes that the burden of the German past must not be cast off - but it should be viewed with compassion and understanding.

And naturally a legal investigation of the "second" German past couldn't stop with the shots along the wall.

"It's an effort at the normalization of the German past."

Traditionally it has emphasized contrition and repentance for the German past.

Since then traces of the German past have been eradicated.

The German past and present can be felt throughout the show.

I must admit however, that a few places of worthwhile interest have carried over from its ethnically German past.

He also expects them to continue to move beyond the moral preoccupations of the German past.

The principal credit for the relatively widespread knowledge of the recent German past must evidently go to the schools.