Discourses of 'political correctness' ('PC') are (Anglo-)American in origin. But this article explores 'PC' from the German perspective, presenting an empirical study of 'PC'-related discourses in a corpus of texts gathered from the newspaper Die Welt, for the period from 1995 to 2000. The findings show many similarities but also a number of interesting differences between Anglo-American and German discourses of 'political correctness', especially regarding the themes of national identity and the so-called 'normalization' of German historical consciousness.