There are a number of possible, symbolically charged, entry points for such an exploration in recent history: 1945, 1989, 2001, or, possibly less obvious, 1961, the year of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, marking the end of the “postwar” period and the beginning of a new assessment of the Holocaust; the beginning too of the hot phase of the cold war marked by the building of the Berlin wall and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion; a year also in which more than a hundred Algerians were murdered by French police in the streets of Paris, a largely uncommemorated event exemplifying the repression of European colonial history (and echoing the French army’s massacre of Algerian civilians on May 8, 1945); the same year finally that the West German government signed a “guest worker” treaty with Turkey that brought to Europe what is now its largest ethnic and religious minority community, a community, however, that is still perceived as representing whatever is not European.