Terror And Democracy In West Germany

Author : Karrin Hanshew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1139549618

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Terror and Democracy in West Germany by Karrin Hanshew Pdf

"In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After 1945, West Germans answered long-standing doubts about democracy's viability and fears of authoritarian state power with a 'militant democracy' empowered against its enemies and a popular commitment to anti-fascist resistance. In the 1970s, these postwar solutions brought Germans into open conflict, fighting to protect democracy from both terrorism and state overreaction. Drawing on diverse sources, Karrin Hanshew shows how Germans, faced with a state of emergency and haunted by their own history, managed to learn from the past and defuse this adversarial dynamic. This negotiation of terror helped them to accept the Federal Republic of Germany as a stable, reformable polity and to reconceive of democracy's defence as part of everyday politics"--

Author : Karrin Hanshew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139560771

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Terror and Democracy in West Germany by Karrin Hanshew Pdf

In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After 1945, West Germans answered long-standing doubts about democracy's viability and fears of authoritarian state power with a 'militant democracy' empowered against its enemies and a popular commitment to anti-fascist resistance. In the 1970s, these postwar solutions brought Germans into open conflict, fighting to protect democracy from both terrorism and state overreaction. Drawing on diverse sources, Karrin Hanshew shows how Germans, faced with a state of emergency and haunted by their own history, managed to learn from the past and defuse this adversarial dynamic. This negotiation of terror helped them to accept the Federal Republic of Germany as a stable, reformable polity and to reconceive of democracy's defence as part of everyday politics.

Author : Peter C. Caldwell,Karrin Hanshew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474262439

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Germany Since 1945 by Peter C. Caldwell,Karrin Hanshew Pdf

Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War right up to the present day. The book provides a narrative that not only explores the histories of East and West Germany in their international contexts, but one that also takes the significantly different world of the Berlin Republic seriously, analyzing it as a distinct and significant period of German history in its own right. Split into three parts roughly devoted to a quarter-century each, this book guides students through contemporary Germany from the catastrophe of war, genocide and the country's division to the very different challenges facing the reunified Germany of the 21st century. There are key primary source excerpts integrated throughout the text, as well as 32 images, numerous maps, charts and tables and a detailed bibliography to further aid study. The book is complemented by online resources which include sample syllabi and a pedagogical supplement. Germany Since 1945 underscores both the particularities of German history and the international trends and transactions that shaped it, giving good coverage to key aspects of post-1945 German society and politics, including: * East and West German paths to reconstruction * The development of consumer society and the welfare state * The politics of memory and coming to terms with the Nazi past * The Cold War * New social and political movements that opposed the postwar status * Immigration and the move toward a multicultural society This is an essential text for any student of contemporary German history.

Author : Richard Hiscocks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:254482626

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Democracy in Western Germany by Richard Hiscocks Pdf

Author : Taylor & Francis Group,Ursula Hoffmann-Lange,Peter Jelavich,Robert Rickards,Lewis J Edinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367287447

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Social and Political Structures in West Germany by Taylor & Francis Group,Ursula Hoffmann-Lange,Peter Jelavich,Robert Rickards,Lewis J Edinger Pdf

This book offers a view of West German social structure and political culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the remarkable changes that have taken place in West Germany since World War II, it provides a basis for judging what direction a united Germany is likely to take.

Author : Ursula Hoffmann-lange
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021839827

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Social And Political Structures In West Germany by Ursula Hoffmann-lange Pdf

This book offers a view of West German social structure and political culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the remarkable changes that have taken place in West Germany since World War II, it provides a basis for judging what direction a united Germany is likely to take.

Author : Armin Grünbacher
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719080762

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The Making of German Democracy by Armin Grünbacher Pdf

This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. The sources, which include official Allied and German documents, parliamentary debates, contemporary newspapers articles, diaries and a large number of previously unpublished archival materials, allow for the first time a source-based study of post-war Germany for non-German speakers. The sources allow an assessment of the changes of Allied policy in the immediate post-war years which led to the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany; explain the country’s role in the intensifying Cold War; and encourage a re-evaluation of the "economic miracle" and whether the Federal Republic signified a "new start" for Germany or a "restoration" of the old social forces and patterns. The book will be of great benefit to students of German post-war history at all levels. It offers a unique opportunity for teachers and lecturers to go well beyond the traditional sources explaining German History and the Cold War.

Author : Richard Stöss
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001715411

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Politics Against Democracy by Richard Stöss Pdf

The election success of Right-Wing extremists in West Germany is limited, but surveys have shown that up to 40per cent of the public show themselves to be susceptible to anti-democratic slogans. This book examines causes manifestations of Right-Wing extremism, and discusses possible counter measures.

Author : Rob Burns,Wilfried van der Will
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Germany (West)
ISBN : 0312016816

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Protest and Democracy in West Germany by Rob Burns,Wilfried van der Will Pdf

Author : Anna von der Goltz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198849520

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The Other '68ers by Anna von der Goltz Pdf

This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest. Writing these activists back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives -including student protest, cultural revolt, internationalism, debates about left-wing violence and the terror of the Red Army Faction, the memory wars of the 1980s and beyond - reveals that this was a broader, more versatile, and, ultimately, more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on a left-wing minority allows. Other '68ers demonstrates that we need a more nuanced history of the 1968 generation and of generational conflict during these years. Student activists comprised individuals from across the political spectrum, who often had very different ideas about what kind of a society they envisaged and how to address the shortcomings of West German democracy. 1968 was a moment of intense political conflict, but it also played out within the student body and nurtured contrasting identities. This book shows that the center-right involvement in 1968 had real consequences. Many of the protagonists of this book would go on to pursue high-profile political careers and leave their mark on West German political culturey. Other '68ers therefore sheds fresh light on how West Germany's center-right dealt with the crisis of hegemony and political identity it experienced in the wake of 1968, how it coped with generational change, how it transformed and modernized after losing power at the national level for the first time in 1969, and how it managed to re-emerge so successfully in the 1980s.

Author : Anna von der Goltz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192589354

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The Other '68ers by Anna von der Goltz Pdf

This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest. Writing these activists back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives -including student protest, cultural revolt, internationalism, debates about left-wing violence and the terror of the Red Army Faction, the memory wars of the 1980s and beyond - reveals that this was a broader, more versatile, and, ultimately, more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on a left-wing minority allows. Other '68ers demonstrates that we need a more nuanced history of the 1968 generation and of generational conflict during these years. Student activists comprised individuals from across the political spectrum, who often had very different ideas about what kind of a society they envisaged and how to address the shortcomings of West German democracy. 1968 was a moment of intense political conflict, but it also played out within the student body and nurtured contrasting identities. This book shows that the center-right involvement in 1968 had real consequences. Many of the protagonists of this book would go on to pursue high-profile political careers and leave their mark on West German political culturey. Other '68ers therefore sheds fresh light on how West Germany's center-right dealt with the crisis of hegemony and political identity it experienced in the wake of 1968, how it coped with generational change, how it transformed and modernized after losing power at the national level for the first time in 1969, and how it managed to re-emerge so successfully in the 1980s.

Author : Brian S. Amador
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1423513630

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The Federal Republic of Germany and Left Wing Terrorism by Brian S. Amador Pdf

From the late 1960s through the 1990s, West Germany confronted a domestic and international terrorist threat of considerable proportions; a threat that was unimaginable to many and a threat that caused considerable tribulations throughout the nation. This thesis analyzes bow the transformation of radical student groups led to the ensuing left wing terrorism that arose within the fledgling democracy of the Bonn Republic, and the means by which the national government sought to suppress it. The thesis examines the evolution of official policy toward the terrorists and their supporting network as well as the sometimes highly critical public reaction that these efforts inspired. It also considers the adaptations and reactions of the terrorists to official measures taken against them by the state. The thesis concludes by considering alterative measures, offer recommendations, and suggestions that might have better served the German government during its thirty-year ordeal against the Red Any Faction, June 2 Movement, and other left wing terrorists.

Author : American Jewish Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258511096

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Neo Nazi Strength and Strategy in West Germany by American Jewish Committee Pdf

Author : David M. Livingstone
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640141513

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Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005 by David M. Livingstone Pdf

"A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straightforward success story. The 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers shows that police violence is still a problem in Western democracies. Floyd's murder prompted some critics to hail the German police as a model of democratic policing that should be emulated. After 1945, Germany's police forces had supposedly shed the militarization and authoritarian impulses still prevalent in other nations' forces. These uncritical appraisals, however, deserve closer analysis. This book is a social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS), a federal border guard established in 1951 that became re-unified Germany's first national police force. It argues that the BGS revived authoritarian traditions of militarized policing and kept them alive long into the postwar era even though the country was supposedly consigning these problematic legacies to its past. The BGS was staffed and led by Wehrmacht and SS veterans until the late 1970s, and while West Germany was democratizing, BGS commanders were still planning to fight wars and were teaching its officers "street fighting" tactics. While the end outcome was positive, the study contributes to the growing body of recent research that complicates the writing of the Federal Republic's history as a "success story." Dealing explicitly with post-fascist West Germany's struggle to establish a democratic police force, the book enters a conversation with studies concerned with democratization, security, and Germany's effort to overcome its Nazi past. DAVID M. LIVINGSTONE holds a PhD in History from the University of California-San Diego. He is retired as Chief of Police of Simi Valley, California and is an adjunct professor at California Lutheran University"--

Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004414471

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Law in West German Democracy by Hugh Ridley Pdf

In their time these important court cases influenced the development of a democratic legal system in a country struggling to overcome Hitler’s legacy. Today they cast a unique light on seventy years of West German social and political history.