Anna Saunders is a Senior Lecturer in German at the School of Modern Languages, Bangor University, Wales. Her publications include the monograph Honecker's Children: Youth and Patriotism in Eastern Germany (2007) and the collection Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities (2013, coedited with Debbie Pinfold).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations and Key TermsChapter 1. Memory, Monuments and MemorializationChapter 2. Socialist Icons: From Heroes to Villains?Chapter 3. Soviet Special Camps: Reassessing a Repressed PastChapter 4. 17 June 1953 Uprisings: Remembering a Failed RevolutionChapter 5. The Berlin Wall: Historical Document, Tourist Magnet or Urban Eyesore?Chapter 6. Remembering the 'Peaceful Revolution' and German UnityChapter 7. Conclusion: Beyond the PalimpsetBibliography

"This is a consistently high-quality monograph, founded on a thorough awareness of memory politics. It reaches persuasive conclusions that challenge established theoretical positions in the field, especially in the way it highlights the dynamic two-way relationship between communicative and cultural memory in the evolution of post-unification memorials." * Dennis Tate, University of Bath