Where not otherwise indicated, all direct quotations are taken from interviews I conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Germany and the United States. Where not otherwise indicated, all translations from the German are my own.
1. Jan Plamper, Das neue Wir: Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen (Fischer Verlag, 2019).
2. Adam Nossiter, Of Long Memory (Da Capo Press, 2002), preface.
3. C. Vann Woodward, The Burden of Southern History, quoted in Curtis Wilkie, Dixie (Scribner, 2001), p. 142.
4. Tzvetan Todorov, Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2003), p. 1.
5. See Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2015 [revised edition]).