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  • Optimizing the German Workforce

    Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle

    by David Meskill ...
    Series Book 31 - Monographs in German History
    During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a system of job training have received little scholarly attention, until now. The author’s account of the ... Read more

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  • After Hitler

    Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate ... Read more

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  • The People's State

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure ... Read more

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  • Creating the Nazi Marketplace

    Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich

    by S. Jonathan Wiesen ...
    When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support for the regime required providing Germans with the products they desired. At the same time, the Nazis worried about the degrading cultural effects of mass consumption and its association with 'Jewish' interests. This book examines how both ... Read more

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  • The Weimar Republic

    by Eberhard Kolb, Eberhard Kolb ...
    Translated by P. S. Falla ...
    In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the international context of the inter-war period. In the second part he surveys and analyses scholarly research in the field which sheds light on the problems and controversies of the period in home and foreign ... Read more

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  • From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic

    Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification

    Edited by Eric Langenbacher, Jeffrey Anderson ...
    The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance of the country for theory and concept–building in many disciplines, an in-depth examination of the ... Read more

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  • Home Fires Burning

    Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

    by Belinda J. Davis ...
    Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace — particularly poorer women — on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.As Britain’s wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by “women of little means ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Companion to Nazi Germany

    Edited by Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third ReichFor its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining ... Read more

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  • Selling the Economic Miracle

    Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957

    by Mark E. Spicka ...
    Series Book 18 - Monographs in German History
    Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of ... Read more

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  • The Thanks of the Fatherland

    German Veterans After the Second World War

    by James M. Diehl ...
    An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany’s defeat. The primary focus is on the major pieces of veterans' legislation passed in the early years of the German Federal Republic. Historical context is provided by the first two chapters and the conclusion, which compares and contrasts the fate of veterans and ... Read more

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  • Becoming Madam Chancellor

    Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic

    by Joyce Marie Mushaben ...
    Since 2005, Angela Merkel has transformed not only the way Germans see themselves but also the way that politicians worldwide, male and female, perceive women in power. The East German daughter of a Protestant pastor, this physicist-turned-politician has deployed her life experiences to cultivate a unique set of leadership skills. Her pragmatic, data-driven, and future-oriented approach to ... Read more

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  • Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945

    Edited by David Crew ...
    Series series Rewriting Histories
    The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research accessible to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD