All places have always been palimpsests. Berlin, Munich, Dresden: Each city retains traces – some prominent, others faint – of the physical and discursive layers of the past, which in turn shape the interpretation of place in the present. Emerging technologies now add virtual layers to place offering new opportunities to connect to the past and potentially reconstruct collective identities. This project is a multi-sited autoethnography and discourse analysis of traditional and emerging technologies in local and national German memory.