Dachau concentration camp memorial is just one typical example of the many failures of coming to terms with the NS past during the era Adenauer'

Abstract

On 15 September 1949, the conservative Christian Democratic politician Konrad Adenauer was elected to serve as the first Chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Hence, the Adenauer era started and lasted until 1963. The choice of a conservative Chancellor reinforced the choice of many West Germans to ignore the National Socialist (NS) past in the immediate period after the war. Is the Dachau concentration camp just one typical example of the failures of coming to terms with the NS past during the Adenauer era?