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Given the importance of historical exhibitions as opportunities for researching German regionalism and particularism in the past, it is surprising that contemporary historical exhibitions are not given more attention by scholars. For the nineteenth century, for example, works by Jennifer Jenkins, Carolyn Kay, Laird East and Glenn Penny outline the conflict of tradition and cultural modernism in the realm of museum exhibitions. From the modern standpoint, German federalism appears to have the effect of furthering the (re)construction of the _Heimat_ through the _Landeszentrale fuer politische Bildung_ in each state. The numerous recent publications of _Landeskunde_, like the recent volume commemorating fifty years of Baden-Wuerttemberg, give contours to the past and present of the state by emphasizing regionalism, even as they offer more than a little information on Holocaust sites and events. Other volumes published in other states are similar. The emphasis on regional particularism serves to build up regional/state identity, while the information on the Holocaust serves to acknowledge the worst of the past in a gesture towards moving towards the new, larger "European" identity. This tension between regional and supra-national identity in contemporary Germany is a necessary addition, in describing contemporary formulations of German identity, to the excellent and thought-provoking work of Jarausch and Geyer in _Shattered Past_. Dieter Buse
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