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The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left
Presents a fascinating account of the emotional politics and practices in the West German alternative left.
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany
How do scholarship and practices of remembrance regarding Nazi Germany benefit from digital tools and approaches? What challenges arise from "doing history digitally" in this field – and how should they best be dealt with? The eight chapters of this book explore these and related questions. They discuss the digital initiatives of various archives and source databases, highlight findings of research undertaken with digital tools, and examine how such tools can be used to present history in education, exhibitions and memorials. All contributions focus on recent or, in some cases, ongoing digital projects related to the history of National Socialism, World War II, and the Holocaust.
The Business of Genocide
Examines the Business Administration Main Office of the SS, which built up the slave-labor system in Nazi concentration camps.
The Miracle Years
Stereotypical descriptions showcase West Germany as an "economic miracle" or cast it in the narrow terms of Cold War politics. Such depictions neglect how material hardship preceded success and how a fascist past and communist sibling complicated the country's image as a bastion of democracy. Even more disappointing, they brush over a rich and variegated cultural history. That history is told here by leading scholars of German history, literature, and film in what is destined to become the volume on postwar West German culture and society. In it, we read about the lives of real people--from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to T...
The War in Their Minds
A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War
Shattered Past
Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the postmodern shift call for a new reading of the country's turbulent development, one that no longer suggests co...
The Spirit of '68
In virtually all corners of the Western world, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions. In Italy, France, Spain, Vietnam, the United States, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, and elsewhere, millions of individuals took matters into their own hands to counter imperialism, capitalism, autocracy, bureaucracy, and all forms of hierarchical thinking. Recent reinterpretations have sought to play down any real challenge to the socio-political status quo in these events, but Gerd-Rainer Horn's book offers a spirited counterblast. 1968, he argues, opened up the possibility that economic and political elites on both sides of the Iron Curtain could be toppled from their posit...
Halbstarke
In den 1950er Jahren sorgten die Halbstarken mit ihrem von gängigen Konventionen abweichenden Aussehen und mit Krawallen bei Rock-'n'-Roll-Konzerten für Aufsehen. Die Halbstarken waren ein schillerndes Phänomen des Jugendprotestes im Nachkriegsdeutschland, gleichzeitig aber auch eine internationale Zeiterscheinung. Im Vergleich mit den USA zeigt Sebastian Kurme, dass aus dem Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten mit James Dean und Elvis Presley nicht nur die unmittelbaren Vorbilder für die deutschen Halbstarken kamen, sondern das Verhalten der Jugendlichen in beiden Ländern auf ähnliche Widersprüche in ihren Lebenswelten zurückzuführen war.
