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  • A study of the dynamics of these discussions – my principle task in this short essay— makes it clear how those present articulate quite different life courses, based on their varying birth years

  • To borrow two further ideas from Mannheim, they give expression to particular "generational context," showing the formation of their own "generational unity".(Mannheim, 1928, p. 541) The younger, in this case, those who were later called "68er’s," clearly differentiated themselves from those slightly older, the 45-er’s; those who had been forced in their childhood or youth to serve as Hitler’s “child soldiers,” or as “air-defense helpers” in the desperate final days of the war

  • I would like to show how Klaus Mollenhauer articulated his own generational location or position in his dialogue with Schulze, while those present whom identified with the events of 1968 used the same discussion to delimit their own generational location

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A study of the dynamics of these discussions – my principle task in this short essay— makes it clear how those present articulate quite different life courses, based on their varying birth years. Mollenhauer explains his own generational positionality to Schulze initially in terms of his service as a Flakhelfer, in the last year of the war –clearly avoiding mention of the biographies of his parents, even though they are clearly an important factor in his scholarship and generational location.

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