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Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964)
Otto Grotewohl kommt in der Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung eine Schlüsselposition zu. Der Sozialdemokrat wirkte nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg maßgeblich an der Zwangsvereinigung von SPD und KPD mit, obwohl er ein solches Projekt anfangs abgelehnt hatte. Außerdem segnete er die innerparteiliche Verfolgung ehemaliger Sozialdemokraten sowie die Transformation der SED in eine kommunistische Kaderpartei ab. Grotewohls Wandlung vom Kritiker zum Befürworter der Zwangsvereinigung, die zur Beseitigung der SPD in der SBZ/DDR führte, und zum linientreuen Parteisoldaten lässt sich jedoch nur dann verstehen, wenn sein Aufstieg in der Weimarer Republik, seine Erfahrungen in der NS-Zeit sowie sein politisches Handeln nach 1945 eingehend analysiert werden. In Dierk Hoffmanns Biographie werden Zwangslagen und Handlungsspielräume des Politikers, der in der zweiten deutschen Diktatur zum Ministerpräsidenten aufstieg, sein persönliches Versagen und seine politische Verstrickung lebendig.
Germany at Fifty-five
Examining how the past has influenced current domestic and foreign policy in Germany, this book explores topics such as the unification of east and west, the founding of the Berlin and Bonn republics, the legacies of national socialism and how the unified Germany's political culture continues to evolve.
Divided Memory
A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996.
After Eichmann
In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a profound effect on shaping the collective memory of what became ‘the Holocaust’. This volume, a special issue of the Journal of Israeli History, brings together new research by scholars from Europe, Israel and the USA.
The Making of the GDR, 1945-53
The Stalinisation of East Germany from 1945 to 1953 is analysed in this text, which is based on research in East German archives. It also tells the story of how the aspirations of antifascists and socialists were ultimately betrayed by Stalin.
Uprising in East Germany 1953
"A detailed introductory essay to provide the necessary historical and political context precedes each part. The individual documents are introduced by short headnotes summarizing the contents and orienting the reader. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information."--BOOK JACKET.
New Lefts
A groundbreaking history of Europe's "new lefts," from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time an upstart leftist movement was built on the ruins of the old. This book traces the history of neoleftism from its antifascist roots in the first half of the twentieth century, to its postwar reconstruction in the 1950s, to its explosive reinvention by the 1960s counterculture. Terence Renaud demonstrates why the left in Europe underwent a series of internal revolts against the organizational forms of est...
Report on Germany
Vol. 11 is a summary report covering the period Sept. 21, 1949-July 31, 1952.
