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The Invisible Wall
The Invisible Wall is one man's quest to understand the failure of the German-Jewish relationship and to explain the character and attitudes of Germany's assimilated Jews over a three hundred-year period. He found rich and remarkable stories in the lives of six Blumenthal ancestors--all of whom happened to be major figures in German-Jewish history. Jost Liebmann, an itinerant peddler of trinkets and cheap jewels who became court jeweler to the Brandenburg nobility; Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, whose Berlin salon was the meeting place of Prussia's intellectual elite; Giacomo Meyerbeer, a celebrated composer of grand opera who dealt with the antisemitism he encountered by ceaselessly striving for...
The People's Own Landscape
An exploration of East German tourist practices of the 1970s and 1980s provides new insight into the country’s environmental politics
Elisabeth – Landgräfin von Thüringen
Wenn man die Wartburg besucht, gelangt man durch einen Laubengang in die Kemenate der heiligen Elisabeth. Sie ist geschmückt mit den berühmten Fresken Moritz von Schwinds, die an das Leben dieser Frau erinnern. Wer war Elisabeth, Landgräfin von Thüringen, die 1231, nur vierundzwanzigjährig, starb und nach ihrem Tod heiliggesprochen wurde? Als vierjähriges Mädchen kam sie, eine ungarische Königstochter, an den Hof von Eisenach. Sie war mit dem elfjährigen Sohn des Landgrafen verlobt worden. Auf der Wartburg wird sie erzogen wie die Fürstenkinder auch. Früh zeigen sich ungewöhnliche Charakterzüge. Sie will, dass es gerecht zugeht, und es entwickelt sich bei ihr eine Frömmigkeit, ...
The Business of Genocide
Examines the Business Administration Main Office of the SS, which built up the slave-labor system in Nazi concentration camps.
Commemorating Hell
This powerful, wide-ranging history of the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora is the first book to analyze how memory of the Third Reich evolved throughout changes in the German regime from World War II to the present. Building on intimate knowledge of the history of the camp, where a third of the 60,000 prisoners did not survive the war, Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler examine the political and cultural aspects of the camp's memorialization in East Germany and, after 1989, in unified Germany. Prisoners at Mittelbau-Dora built the V-1 and V-2 missiles, some of them coming into direct contact with Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who later became leading engineers in the U.S. sp...
The German Minority in Interwar Poland
Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.
The Zookeepers' War
The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. “The liveliness of Mohnhaupt’s storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush, socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned... and then rarely completed. Berlin’s two zoos in East and West quickly became symbols of the divided city’s two ha...
Remaking Berlin
An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin's networked urban infrastructures have acted as medium and manifestation of municipal, national, and international politics and policies. Moss traces the coevolution of Berlin and its infrastructure systems from the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 to remunicipalization of services in 2020, encom...
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice
Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept embedded in contemporary conservation. Heritage conservation has shifted from an historical focus on buildings, city centres, and archaeological sites to encompass progressively more diverse forms of heritage and increasingly larger geographic areas, embracing both rural and urban landscapes. While the origin of the idea of cultural landscapes can be traced to the late-19th century Euro-American scholarship, it came to global attention after 1992 following its adoption as a category of ‘site’ by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Today, cultu...
