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  • Coping with the Nazi Past

    West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975

    Edited by Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in German History
    Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer an in-depth analysis of how the collective memory of Nazism and the Holocaust influenced, and was ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Nuclear Crisis

    The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

    Edited by Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach ...
    Series Book 19 - Protest, Culture & Society
    In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Nuclear Crisis

    The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

    Edited by Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, Christoph Becker-Schaum ...
    Series Book 19 - Protest, Culture & Society
    In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Why the Germans? Why the Jews?

    Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

    by Götz Aly ...
    An analysis of why the effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe happened in Germany instead of other European nations with stronger histories of anti-Semitism."Gripping reading. . . . The lavish evidence Aly heaps on—from both self-revealing anti-Semites, and acutely prescient Jewish writers—is incredible." — The New York Times Book ReviewWhy the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have ... 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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  • Hitler's True Believers

    How Ordinary People Became Nazis

    by Robert Gellately ...
    Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodge-podge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in ... Read more

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  • Broken Lives

    How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did.Drawing on six dozen ... Read more

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  • A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

    Politics, Culture, and Society

    by Michael Brenner ...
    A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st Century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Social Revolution

    by David Schoenbaum ...
    The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society. ... Read more

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  • Out of the Darkness

    The Germans, 1942-2022

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  • Rethinking the Weimar Republic

    Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936

    by Professor Anthony McElligott ...
    “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UKThis study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the ... Read more

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