Adenauer

Author : Arnold J. Heidenheimer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401188104

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Adenauer and the CDU by Arnold J. Heidenheimer Pdf

This is a study in the reestablishment of de mocratic party politics in divided and occupied Germany after the downfall of the National Socialist tyranny. Its subject is the growth of the Christian Democratic Union and the rise to power of its leader, Konrad Adenauer. Closely associated with the success of the German Federal Republic in achieving prosperity, political and military power and the status of an ally of the Western powers, the CDU has yet been the subject of widely varying evaluations. Like the regime with which it is associated, it suffers from the fact that for many observers admiration for some German post-war achievements is mixed with residual distrust and skepticism. In addition, understanding of the CDU has been handicapped by confused images of the forces it represents, lack of knowledge about its internal organization, and the overwhelming position which its leader has achieved in recent years. To observers both in Germany and abroad the dominant Chancellor and party leader appears to overshadow both party and government with the result that the 1950'S, the vital period of German reconstruction, has already been labelled the Adenauer Decade.

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780471437673

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Adenauer by Charles Williams Pdf

Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER "A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." --Daily Telegraph (London) "Charts the ironies of Adenauer's complicated life. This is the story of a marathon man, but it is narrated at the pace of a sprinter and with the elegance of a hurdler."--The Times (London) "Lucid and engaging. This is a well-researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political."--The Herald (Glasgow) "A highly readable, thoroughly reliable, intelligently critical life-and-times. . . . This portrait does justice to a man who is often invoked as a prophet of a United States of Europe, but who was in truth the greatest of German patriots."--Literary Review (London) "Well-researched and admirably written . . . reveals Adenauer the man--with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance, and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning."--The Independent (London) THE LAST GREAT FRENCHMAN "Knowledgeable, lucid . . . the best English biography of de Gaulle."--The New York Times Book Review "Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book."--Daily Telegraph (London)

Author : Steven Brady
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739142259

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Eisenhower and Adenauer by Steven Brady Pdf

This book addresses the US-West German alliance in the 1950s, during which time Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and Konrad Adenauer in the Federal Chancery. This is a unique multi-lateral, multi-archival work that analyzes the dilemmas and ultimate successes of the Cold War alliance that was most crucial for Western Europe during the early years of the Cold War.

Author : Ronald J. Granieri
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571814922

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The Ambivalent Alliance by Ronald J. Granieri Pdf

The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer era accessible for historians. Using this material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the period, the text traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU is shaping the Westbindung.

Author : Edgar Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008160338

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Adenauer and the New Germany by Edgar Alexander Pdf

Author : Thomas Maulucci
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501756696

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Adenauer's Foreign Office by Thomas Maulucci Pdf

The creation of the Foreign Office under Adenauer tells us much about the possibilities and limits of professional diplomacy in the mid-twentieth century. It also demonstrates three themes central to the early history of the Federal Republic: the integration of the new state into the international community, the cooptation of German elites and traditions by the new political system, and the creation of government in a state under foreign occupation. In this important study, Thomas Maulucci argues that, despite an improvised start and a considerable continuity of practice and personnel with pre-1945 Germany, the changed international anddomestic situation proved decisive in creating a ministry that could help to implement new directions in German foreign policy. In addition, Maulucci explores the interactions between international, political, and social history, contributing to a literature that bridges the gap between the pre- and post-World War Two eras that characterized previous writing on German history. Based on extensive research in German, American, British, and French archives, Adenauer's Foreign Office is the only English-language book of its kind. The troubling question of personnel continuity in the German diplomatic service is of considerable importance today, especially because of the Foreign Office's previous attempts to portray its past in the best possible light. Of interest to scholars and students of German history and politics as well as non-specialists, this book provides new insights into post-war diplomacy, the sociology of German elites, and the problems involved in creating a new government after losing a major war.

Author : Norbert Frei
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231507905

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Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past by Norbert Frei Pdf

Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, at home questions of responsibility and retribution were not so clear. In this masterful examination of Germany under Adenauer, Norbert Frei shows that, beginning in 1949, the West German government dramatically reversed the denazification policies of the immediate postwar period and initiated a new "Vergangenheitspolitik," or "policy for the past," which has had enormous consequences reaching into the present. Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past chronicles how amnesty laws for Nazi officials were passed unanimously and civil servants who had been dismissed in 1945 were reinstated liberally—and how a massive popular outcry led to the release of war criminals who had been condemned by the Allies. These measures and movements represented more than just the rehabilitation of particular individuals. Frei argues that the amnesty process delegitimized the previous political expurgation administered by the Allies and, on a deeper level, served to satisfy the collective psychic needs of a society longing for a clean break with the unparalleled political and moral catastrophe it had undergone in the 1940s. Thus the era of Adenauer devolved into a scandal-ridden period of reintegration at any cost. Frei's work brilliantly and chillingly explores how the collective will of the German people, expressed through mass allegiance to new consensus-oriented democratic parties, cast off responsibility for the horrors of the war and Holocaust, effectively silencing engagement with the enormities of the Nazi past.

Author : Hans-Peter Schwarz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Germany
ISBN : 1571819606

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Konrad Adenauer by Hans-Peter Schwarz Pdf

Author : O. Bange
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230286276

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The EEC Crisis of 1963 by O. Bange Pdf

This fresh look at the 1963 crisis in the western alliance following de Gaulle's veto of the British EEC application uses much new unpublished source material to offer a fascinating insight into the personal relationships of the western leaders. It challenges the orthodox view, showing that the ultimate breakdown came after Anglo-German and Anglo-American cooperation to ensure that de Gaulle was made the sole scapegoat, in order to isolate France within the EEC.

Author : Ronald Eckford Mill Irving
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056211611

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Adenauer by Ronald Eckford Mill Irving Pdf

Konrad Adenauer was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany during the crucially important postwar years 1949-63, often referred to as the 'Adenauer Era'. Adenauer was certainly a very influential figure in postwar German politics. In 1949 he became Chancellor of a still-occupied country, which lay in ruins after the collapse of Hitler's dictatorship. When his Chancellorship ended fourteen years later, the Federal Republic was a prosperous, powerful, sovereign, liberal democracy, firmly committed to the Western Alliance. As Ronald Irving shows, Adenauer contributed significantly to this huge metamorphosis. This is more than a personal biography: it is an assessment of the life and times of a significant politician and statesman. This new Profile focuses especially on Adenauer's controversial character. Did he unwittingly undermine the development of liberal democracy by his autocratic behaviour? Ronald Irving assesses Adenauer's leadership of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), through which German conservatives of all classes, confessions and regions embraced liberal democracy for the first time. He analyses the Federal Republic's much-debated and controversial foreign policy in the 1950s and 1960s. Ronald Irving uses his wide knowledge of postwar European history and politics to tackle these complex questions. Ronald Irving is Reader in Politics and Contemporary European History at University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several books including The Christian Democratic Parties of Western Europe' (1979).

Author : Hans-Peter Schwarz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571818707

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Konrad Adenauer: From the German Empire to the Federal Republic, 1876-1952 by Hans-Peter Schwarz Pdf

Konrad Adenauer was one of modern Germany's great statesmen and perhaps its most remarkable representative: his long life spanned all important epochs, ranging from Bismarckian Empire to the Federal Republic. We are therefore pleased to present the first volume of this major biography in English, written by one of Germany's most influential ......

Author : Volker R. Berghahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691179636

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Journalists Between Hitler and Adenauer by Volker R. Berghahn Pdf

The moral and political role of German journalists before, during, and after the Nazi dictatorship Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, Volker Berghahn focuses on the lives and work of three remarkable individuals: Marion Countess Dönhoff, distinguished editor of Die Zeit; Paul Sethe, “the grand old man of West German journalism”; and Hans Zehrer, editor in chief of Die Welt. All born before 1914, Dönhoff, Sethe, and Zehrer witnessed the Weimar Republic’s end and opposed Hitler. When the latter seized power in 1933, they were, like their fellow Germans, confronted with the difficult choice of entering exile, becoming part of the active resistance, or joining the Nazi Party. Instead, they followed a fourth path—“inner emigration”—psychologically distancing themselves from the regime, their writing falling into a gray zone between grudging collaboration and active resistance. During the war, Dönhoff and Sethe had links to the 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, while Zehrer remained out of sight on a North Sea island. In the decades after 1945, all three became major figures in the West German media. Berghahn considers how these journalists and those who chose inner emigration interpreted Germany’s horrific past and how they helped to morally and politically shape the reconstruction of the country. With fresh archival materials, Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer sheds essential light on the influential position of the German media in the mid-twentieth century and raises questions about modern journalism that remain topical today.

Author : Norbert Frei
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231118828

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Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past by Norbert Frei Pdf

Frei chronicles the denazification process in Adenauer's 1950s Germany. The stopping of punishment for Nazi crimes formed the crux of a policitcs of the past which, to a large degree, revoked the consequences of the previous political expurgation.

Author : Michael Krekel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Germany
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073315298

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Konrad Adenauer by Michael Krekel Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Germany (West)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02091997B

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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf