Confronting the Nazi past / Jennifer E. Michaels -- Farewell to the letters of the Federal Republic? / Siegfried Mews -- Texts and contexts / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Literature and convergence / Stephen Brockmann -- Critical interventions / Barbara Kosta and Helga Kraft -- Thou bleeding piece of earth / Walter Pape -- Revival of conservative literature? / Jay J. Rosellini -- Re/fusing past and present / Nora M. Alter -- What should remain? / Frank Trommler.