Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity

Essays on Modern German History
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-200-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany alongside innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany’s descent into, and emergence from, the Nazi catastrophe. It explores the intersections between society, economy, and international policy, with a particular interest in the relations between elites and the wider society, and provides new insights into the complex continuities and discontinuities of modern German history. This volume offers a rich selection of essays that contribute to our understanding of the road to war, Nazism, and the Holocaust, as well as Germany’s transformation after 1945.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biess, Frank

Roseman, Mark

Schissler, Hanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

Frank Biess and Mark Roseman

PART I: GERMAN ELITES AND AN UNRULY SOCIETY

Chapter 1. Kulturkampf and Geschlechterkampf: Anti-Catholicism, Catholic Women, and Public Space

Michael B. Gross

Chapter 2. The 1923 Ruhr Crisis: The Limits of Active Resistance

Conan Fischer

Chapter 3. Political Violence, Gesinnung, and the Courts in Late Weimar Berlin

Pamela E. Swett

PART II: GERMAN SOCIETY AND A VIOLENT REGIME

Chapter 4. Beyond Conviction? Perpetrators, Ideas and Action in the Holocaust in Historiographical Perspective

Mark Roseman

Chapter 5. The Dissolution of the Third Reich

Hans Mommsen

Chapter 6. The Search for Missing Soldiers: MIAs, POWs, and Ordinary Germans, 1943–45

Frank Biess

PART III: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN GERMANY'S FOREIGN RELATIONS

Chapter 7. The Kaiser and His English Relations Revisited

John C. G. Röhl

Chapter 8. Appeasement and Counter-Appeasement: Nazi–Soviet Collaboration 1939–1941

Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann

Chapter 9. Imperialism as a Paradigm for Modern German History

Uta Poiger

Chapter 10. Americanization as a Paradigm of German History

Mary Nolan

PART IV: SMOOTH SURFACES, MURKY DEPTHS: THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC

Chapter 11. The Radicalization that Never Was? Refugees in the German Federal Republic

Ian Connor

Chapter 12. Germany’s Special Path? Economic Sciences and Politics in the Federal Republic, 1945–1970

Alexander Nützenadel

Chapter 13. Catholic Elites, Gender, and Unintended Consequences in the 1950s: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Role of Conservatives in the Federal Republic

Mark Edward Ruff

Chapter 14. Memory, Morality, and the Sexual Liberalization of West Germany

Dagmar Herzog

Chapter 15. The Modern Guild: Rotary Clubs and Bourgeois Renewal in the Aftermath of National Socialism

S. Jonathan Wiesen

Chapter 16. Fighting to Win the Peace: 08/15 and West German Memories of the Second World War

Robert G. Moeller

Chapter 17. Rehabilitating Fatherland: Race and German Remasculinization

Heide Fehrenbach

Chapter 18. Epilogue: Zeitgenossenschaft: Some Reflections on Doing Contemporary German History

Hanna Schissler

Selected Readings

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schissler, Hanna
Hanna Schissler teaches modern history at the University of Hanover and is a Research Director at the Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig. Her publications include the edited volumes: The Miracle Years, A Cultural History of West Germany, and National Identity and Perceptions of the Past.

Roseman, Mark
Mark Roseman holds the Pat M. Glazer chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. His publications include A Past in Hiding, Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany, and The Wannsee Conference: A Reconsideration.

Biess, Frank
Frank Biess is Associate Professor for Modern German and European History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Homecomings. Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany, and is co-editing a volume on the comparative history of the European “postwar” after 1945.

Frank Biess is Associate Professor for Modern German and European History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Homecomings. Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany, and is co-editing a volume on the comparative history of the European “postwar” after 1945.