“celebratory” occasions. The first involves attacks on German Citizens of Color, minorities,
and refugees following the opening of the Berlin Wall in the Wende period of 1989–90. The
second approaches the Cologne attacks on New Year's Eve 2015, concerning the
enactment of sexual violence on German women of various racial and ethnic backgrounds
and the plundering of women and men. Both serve as key turning points in relation to the …