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Erpenbeck’s excavation of East German memory
The 1993 revised edition of the popular German language primer Sprachkurs Deutsch 1 contains a small text about Germany, Austria, and Switzerland meant for simple reading comprehension. About German reunification it says pithily: “The wall has fallen, but …