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Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front
The contradictory behaviour of the German Army in the east resulted from its adherence to the concept of military necessity.
Die wahrhaft königliche Stadt
English In Eine wahrhaft königliche Stadt, Daniela Kah describes how contemporary residents and visitors were able to experience and perceive the presence of the Holy Roman Empire (or its representatives, e.g., the king) in three late medieval cities -- Augsburg, Nürnberg and Lübeck. After receiving privileges from the king, these cities initiated large construction projects designed to assert their imperial status. These projects had a major impact on everyday life and made the Empire visible and graspable within the city. However, in the 13th century the cities increasingly deployed symbols and signs to represent their self-understanding as 'imperial'. ‘Being immediate to the Empire...
Experience and Memory
Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people’s experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia discuss these and other questions in this comprehensive volume.
Exiles Traveling
This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms “exile” and “travel” still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.
Training Soccer
A training companion and workbook in one. Billy the Magic Mouse accompanies young readers through each chapter, offering tips for soccer enthusiasts, whether they're playing in organized leagues or in a nearby playground.
German Communism, Workers’ Protest, and Labor Unions
This book examines the rise of the German Communist Party in the crucial period between the Kapp Putsch and the stabilization of the Weimar Republic. Based on extensive archival research, its reconstruction of Communist participation in union and protest movements in the key industrial region of Rhineland-Westphalia offers the first detailed social analysis of Communist support, organization and political strategy in German labor unions. By viewing German Communism against the backdrop of industrial structures and economic conditions, this study illuminates the deeper divisions in the German workers' movement that contributed to the tragedy of the Weimar Republic.
Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200
What did kingship mean to medieval Europeans - especially to those who did not wear a crown? From the training of heirs, to the deathbed of kings and the choosing of their successors, this engaging study explores how a ruler's subjects shaped both the idea and the reality of power.
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of juvenile justice, and the efforts to reform the penal code, criminal procedure, and the prison system. The collection also reveals that the history of criminal justice has much to contribute to other areas of historical inquiry: it explores the changing relationship of criminal justice to psychiatry and social welfare, analyzes representations of crime and criminal justice in the media and literature, and uses the lens of criminal justice to illuminate German social history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.
Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature
The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutch literatures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a political and religious leader, or, at times, criticizing or even ridiculing him as a pompous and ineffectual ruler. The motif is traced from its earliest origins in chronicles, in the Kaiserchronik, through the Rolandslied and Der Stricker's Karl der Große, to his recasting as a saint in the Zürcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl.
Historische Debatten und Kontroversen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Historische Debatten und Kontroversen uber Phanomene der menschlichen Vergangenheit haben die Geschichtswissenschaft seit ihren Anfangen begleitet und sind in vielen Fallen auch in einer breiteren Offentlichkeit auf Resonanz gestoaen. Bei der systematisch-vergleichenden Betrachtung dieser Diskurse fallt auf, dass sie einerseits zum Motor konstruktiven Erkenntnisfortschritts, andererseits zum Instrument fur das Erreichen gegenwartiger, haufig politischer Ziele werden konnten. Insbesondere wenn Konstruktion, Variation oder Destruktion eines oder mehrerer grundsatzlicher gesellschaftlicher Mythen in der Debatte mitschwingen, sind umfangreiche Verwerfungen zu erwarten. Zusammenfassend lasst sich immer wieder feststellen, dass die polemische Intensitat einer Kontroverse sich zum wissenschaftlichen Erkenntniswert umgekehrt proportional verhalt, da nur die Einhaltung diskursiver Regeln im Sinne der Prinzipien von afair playo die Bedingungen fur konstruktive und produktive Auseinandersetzungen schafft. (Franz Steiner 2002)
