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Postwar Germany

Modern Germany - the Berlin Club scene, the fiction of the Merkel years, how the rest of the world sees the Germans and the ongoing national conversation about anti-Semitism.

Re-invention and moral struggles are at the heart of the story of postwar Germany traced by Frank Trentmann in his new book Out of the Darkness. Anne McElvoy talks to him, to Thomas Meaney the new editor of Granta who is bringing out an edition called Deutschland, to journalist Stefanie Bolzen and to New Generation Thinker Dr Tom Smith, who has studied the techno scene in German cities. How have 70 years of political struggles shaped Germany's culture and identity?

Producer: Ruth Watts

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44 minutes

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Wed 22 Nov 2023 22:00

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  • Wed 22 Nov 2023 22:00

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