Deutschland 1929 And After

Author : Agnes Finnegan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781291542486

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Deutschland 1929 and after by Agnes Finnegan Pdf

Journal of a young Ulster student - both naive and deeply wise - as the visits Germany between the wars and tels of what she saw. it is followed by two long and intensely moving letters written after the war by one of the German friends she had visited, detailing the horrific dilemmas that she, an ordinary German, had faced under Nazism Although it has proved impossible to trace the current copyright holder, the editor is confident that the writer would wish her experiences to be known, and trusts that any surviving rights holder will contact her. The book is edited by the author's eldest daughter, Ruth (Ruth Finnegan, also known as the dream story-teller Catherine Farrar). Further background is given in the same author's fascinating 'Reaching for the fruit: growing up in Ulster (http: //www.barnesandnoble.com/s/reaching-for-the-fruit-finnegan?keyword=reaching+for+the+fruit+finnegan&store=ebook) CALLENDER PEACE STUDIES

Author : Robert Goodrich
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469665559

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Democracy in Crisis by Robert Goodrich Pdf

Democracy in Crisis explores one of the world's greatest failures of democracy in Germany during the so-called Weimar Republic, 1919–33—a failure that led to the Third Reich. For more than a decade after World War I, liberalism, nationalism, conservatism, social democracy, Christian democracy, communism, fascism, and every variant of these movements struggled for power. Although Germany's constitutional framework boldly enshrined liberal democratic values, the political spectrum was so broad and fully represented that a stable parliamentary majority required constant negotiations. The compromises that were made subsequently alienated citizens, who were embittered by national humiliation in the war and the ensuing treaty and struggling to survive economic turmoil and rapidly changing cultural norms. As positions hardened, the door was opened to radical alternatives. In this game, students, as delegates of the Reichstag (parliament), must contend with intense parliamentary wrangling, uncontrollable world events, street fights, assassinations, and insurrections. The game begins in late 1929, just after the U.S. stock market crash, as the Reichstag deliberates the Young Plan (a revision to the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I). Students belonging to various political parties must debate these matters and more as the combination of economic stress, political gridlock, and foreign pressure turn Germany into a volcano on the verge of eruption.

Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735224483

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Stalin by Stephen Kotkin Pdf

“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin’s obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. While Stalin revived a great power, building a formidable industrialized military, the Soviet Union was effectively alone and surrounded by perceived enemies. The quest for security would bring Soviet Communism to a shocking and improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain would not unfold as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is a history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin’s seat of power. It is a landmark achievement in the annals of historical scholarship, and in the art of biography.

Author : Stephen J. Lee
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 043530920X

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Weimar and Nazi Germany by Stephen J. Lee Pdf

This text is one in a series that meets the requirements of the revised GCSE syllabus. Looking at Nazi Germany, it covers the ghettos, propaganda and the individual's role, providing source material. There are exam questions at the end of each unit. A simplified foundation edition is available.

Author : Peter D. Stachura
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038109042

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Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany by Peter D. Stachura Pdf

Author : Anton Kaes,Martin Jay,Edward Dimendberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520909601

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The Weimar Republic Sourcebook by Anton Kaes,Martin Jay,Edward Dimendberg Pdf

A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power. Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social life. Its thirty chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "New Woman," Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascism. While devoting much attention to the Republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographies. This will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, German, and women's studies.

Author : Ángel Alcalde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1316648184

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War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe by Ángel Alcalde Pdf

This book explores, from a transnational viewpoint, the historical relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. Until now, historians have been roughly divided between those who assume that 'brutalization' (George L. Mosse) led veterans to join fascist movements and those who stress that most ex-soldiers of the Great War became committed pacifists and internationalists. Transcending the debates of the brutalization thesis and drawing upon a wide range of archival and published sources, this work focuses on the interrelated processes of transnationalization and the fascist permeation of veterans' politics in interwar Europe to offer a wider perspective on the history of both fascism and veterans' movements. A combination of mythical constructs, transfers, political communication, encounters and networks within a transnational space explain the relationship between veterans and fascism. Thus, this book offers new insights into the essential ties between fascism and war, and contributes to the theorization of transnational fascism.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Government publications
ISBN : HARVARD:32044109641258

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The Treaty of Versailles and After by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Congresses and conventions
ISBN : OSU:32435056938061

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The Treaty of Versailles and After by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julia Von dem Knesebeck
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Europe
ISBN : 190739611X

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The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post-war Germany by Julia Von dem Knesebeck Pdf

Thirty years passed before it was accepted, in West Germany and elsewhere, that the Roma (Germany's Gypsies) had been Holocaust victims. And, similarly, it took thirty years for the West German state to admit that the sterilisation of Roma had been part of the 'Final Solution'. Drawing on a substantial body of previously unseen sources, this book examines the history of the struggle of Roma for recognition as racially persecuted victims of National Socialism in post-war Germany. Since modern academics belatedly began to take an interest in them, the Roma have been described as 'forgotten victims'. This book looks at the period in West Germany between the end of the War and the beginning of the Roma civil rights movement in the early 1980s, during which the Roma were largely passed over when it came to compensation. The complex reasons for this are at the heart of this book.

Author : Richard J. Evans,Dick Geary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317542049

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The German Unemployed (Routledge Revivals) by Richard J. Evans,Dick Geary Pdf

Unemployment was perhaps the major problem confronting European society at the time in which this book was first published in 1987, and is arguably still the case today. This collection of essays by British and German historians contributes to the debate by taking a close look at unemployment in the Weimar Republic. What groups were most severely affected, and why? How did they react? How effective were welfare and job creation schemes? Did unemployment fuel social instability and political extremism? How far was unemployment a cause of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the triumph of the Third Reich? Did the Nazis solve the unemployment problem by peaceful Keynsianism or through massive rearmament? This book is ideal for students of history, sociology, and economics.

Author : Gordon Alexander Craig
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0198221134

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Germany, 1866-1945 by Gordon Alexander Craig Pdf

A history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870. Suitable for A Level and upwards. In the OXFORD HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE series.

Author : Joshua Hagen,Robert C. Ostergren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780742567993

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Building Nazi Germany by Joshua Hagen,Robert C. Ostergren Pdf

This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. The authors show that it was an intentional program to thoroughly reorganize the country's economic, cultural, and political landscapes in order to create a dramatically new Germany, saturated with Nazi ideology.

Author : Hans-Werner Sinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198702139

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The Euro Trap by Hans-Werner Sinn Pdf

This book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states. The euro induced huge capital flows from the northern to the southern countries of the Eurozone that triggered an inflationary credit bubble in the latter, deprived them of their competitiveness, and made them vulnerable to the financial crisis that spilled over from the US in 2007 and 2008. As private capital shied away from the southern countries, the ECB helped out by providing credit from the local money-printing presses. The ECB became heavily exposed to investment risks in the process, and subsequently had to be bailed out by intergovernmental rescue operations that provided replacement credit for the ECB credit, which itself had replaced the dwindling private credit. The interventions stretched the legal structures stipulated by the Maastricht Treaty which, in the absence of a European federal state, had granted the ECB a very limited mandate. These interventions created a path dependency that effectively made parliaments vicarious agents of the ECB's Governing Council. This book describes what the author considers to be a dangerous political process that undermines both the market economy and democracy, without solving southern Europe's competitiveness problem. It argues that the Eurozone has to rethink its rules of conduct by limiting the role of the ECB, exiting the regime of soft budget constraints and writing off public and bank debt to help the crisis countries breathe again. At the same time, the Eurosystem should become more flexible by offering its members the option of exiting and re-entering the euro - something between the dollar and the Bretton Woods system - until it eventually turns into a federation with a strong political power centre and a uniform currency like the dollar.

Author : Richard W. T. Pomfret
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198233350

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The Economics of Regional Trading Arrangements by Richard W. T. Pomfret Pdf

The Economics of Regional Trading Arrangements provides a unified analysis of policies which discriminate among trading partners. Regionalism became a major issue in international commercial diplomacy during the early 1990s. The proliferation of RTAs was viewed by some as a challenge, and by others as a complement, to the establishment of the World Trade Organization as the successor to GATT. This book analyses the new RTAs. It situates them in the broader realm of discriminatory trade polices for which there is a well-defined body of theory and empirical studies, before asking whether the new regionalism requires new theoretical analysis. The approach is to combine in roughly equal proportions history, theory, and a review of empirical studies. This is appropriate given the key theoretical result is the welfare ambiguity of discriminatory trade policy changes. Empirical studies can provide a sense of which of the potentially offsetting effects are more or less important. Since some effects may take a long time to have their full impact and may be systemic, it is also useful to observe how RTAs have evolved in practice.