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The dispute over German past is not reserved for historians only. You can find both “advocates of German guilt” and “bards of German suffering” (Aleida Assmann) among many German writers. In the following article I ana-lyze essays by Maxim Biller and Bernhard Schlink – authors who each has differ-ent views on such a painful for Germans past.