Introduction / Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- 1. Can We Learn from History? -- 2. A Double Past. What Does 'Working Off the Past' Mean Today? Replies to Questions from a Bundestag Investigative Commission -- 3. German Uncertainties. French Views, French Anxieties: An Interview with Le Monde. The Germans' 'Sense of Being Special' Is Regenerating Hour by Hour: An Interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau. The Adenauer Restoration's Debts: An Interview with the Kolner Stadtanzeiger -- 4. The Need for German Continuities. A Letter to Christa Wolf. Carl Schmitt in the Political Intellectual History of the Federal Republic. Das Falsche im Eigenen: On Benjamin and Adorno -- 5. Between Facts and Norms. A Conversation about Questions of Political Theory -- 6. Which History Can We Learn From? 1989 in the Shadow of 1945: On the Normality of a Future Berlin Republic.