Abstract
This article summarizes a discussion on the state of German historiography in the post-war period, which took place in 2010 on the platform for the Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA). The discussion primarily addressed the transition from German-European historical milestones to world-wide caesuras, the question of the role of the German "obsession with Nazism" and the influence of the 1968 generation upon the concept of post-war history, the contradiction between a huge international interest in the history of the GDR and indifference to the results of research dealing with the RFG, and the unwillingness of German historians to accept the results of foreign research on German post-war history as part of European history as a whole.