Topography of memory

The most important speeches and essays by the brilliant essayist Martin Pollack in one volume for the first time: They are devoted to such diverse topics as the Rechnitz massacre in the last weeks of the war, the Viennese "Reibpartien", where Jews had to scrub the pavements to the applause of the population, the myth of Galicia, Polish and Ukrainian post-war history or even his own family's involvement in National Socialism. Pollack's view is always sharp and critical, always directed against comfortable forgetting. And he always asks the central question of the politics of history: How can and must we deal with this memory today?