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The Power of Emotions
Emotions make history, and emotions have a history. Through engaging analysis of twenty essential and powerful emotions - including anger, grief, hate, love, pride, shame and trust - Ute Frevert explores the emotional worlds of Germans to tell a very different story of the 20th century.
Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship
Most modern democracies punish hate speech. Less freedom for some, they claim, guarantees greater freedom for others. Heinze rejects that approach, arguing that democracies have better ways of combatting violence and discrimination against vulnerable groups without having to censor speakers. Critiquing dominant free speech theories, Heinze explains that free expression must be safeguarded not just as an individual right, but as an essential attribute of democratic citizenship. The book challenges contemporary state regulation of public discourse by promoting a stronger theory of what democracy is and what it demands. Examining US, European, and international approaches, Heinze offers a new vision of free speech within Western democracies.
The Rise and Fall of Comradeship
This book reveals how ideas of comradeship shaped the actions and mindsets of ordinary German soldiers across the twentieth century.
Mobilizing on the Extreme Right
This volume compares the extreme right in Italy, Germany, and the United States using concepts and methods developed in social movement studies, paying particular attention to the discourses actions, and organisational structures of each movement.
Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany
Against the backdrop of an insurgent far right and numerous deadly neo-Nazi attacks, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany’s collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary examples from literature, music, theatre, film, television and art that respond to this situation. They demonstrate that, alongside the ways in which art expands the public sphere in terms of what is said and who is heard, aesthetic questions of how artistic works are presented are a crucial part of how they open up new perspectives.
Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe
The thirst for post-World War II justice transcended the Cold War and mobilized diverse social groups. This is a story of their multilayered and at times conflictual interactions.
The Mark of Cain
The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after World War II. These documents provide intimate insights into the self-reflection and self-perception of perpetrators. As Germany looks back on more than sixty years of passionate debate about political, personal and legal guilt, its ongoing engagement with the legacy of perpetration has transformed German culture and politics. The willingn...
Stereotypes and Violence
Stereotypes are dangerous, especially when they are used by demagogues. Slogans, which remind the historian of darker times in human history, however, reappear again in a growing number. As companions of the rise of right wing forces in Europe they make up ground in more and more regions and gain momentum in the political debate. It consequently seems to be more than important to focus on and closer analyze the interrelationship between stereo types and violence in modern societies. The fourth volume of Global Humanities tries to achieve such a broader analysis and provides reading in the fields of history, political science, gender and media studies. The authors show and emphasize in which ...
Reckonings
Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment.
Helene Elisabeth Prinzessin von Isenburg
Helene Elisabeth Prinzessin von Isenburg erlangte als «Mutter Elisabeth» durch den von ihr mitgegründeten Verein «Stille Hilfe für Kriegsgefangene und Internierte» internationale Bekanntheit. Vor allem ihr Engagement für die von den alliierten Militärgerichten abgeurteilten Frauen und Männer hat das heutige Bild über sie geprägt. Daß dies allerdings nur ein Teil ihrer Arbeit war, ist kaum bekannt. So setzte sie sich bereits während der Kriegszeit für die Dachauer KZ-Häftlinge ein und kümmerte sich nach Kriegsende um die Familienangehörigen internierter Personen, die oft in gänzlicher Mittellosigkeit ihr Dasein fristen mussten. Der Autor Friedrich Pfad analysiert in diesem B...
