... at your past and see someone who is a stranger in terms of ideology and beliefs, then this coming to terms with your own past is simultaneously a coming to terms with the German past The significance ... relentless in pushing the process towards completion The rapidly achieved unification seemed to bring closure to postwar efforts to come to terms with the National Socialist past The initial act of the ... developments in the East Indeed, on the issue of coming to terms with the past West and East Germany diverged radically While many in the West tended to identify National Socialism with a more encompassing...