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initiatives came from here in the region, from East Germany, and less from West Germany.’61 The tendency to heroise the role of the GDR citizen during the Wende undoubtedly also relates to this generation’s condemnation of the masses during the Third Reich, for having experienced an atmosphere of revolt in the GDR, they denounced those who made no such visible efforts under National Socialist rule. Personal experience of the GDR and the Wende have thus clearly been influential in shaping attitudes towards both the German past and present. In contrast, teenagers’ perceptions