The German Question

Author : Frédéric Bozo,Christian Wenkel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789202274

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France and the German Question, 1945–1990 by Frédéric Bozo,Christian Wenkel Pdf

In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany’s fate, and the separation of the country—the result of the nascent Cold War—emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement. Yet East and West Germany would exist apart for half a century, making the "German question" a central foreign policy issue—and given the war-torn history between the two countries, this was felt no more keenly than in France. Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France’s approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged.

Author : Wilhelm Röpke
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : German reunification question (1949-1990)
ISBN : 9781610164436

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The German Question by Wilhelm Röpke Pdf

"Translated from the second edition.""First published in Great Britain in 1946. Published in Switzerland in 1945 under the title Die deutsche frage."

Author : DIRK. VERHEYEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036709858X

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GERMAN QUESTION by DIRK. VERHEYEN Pdf

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : Yale.ORIM
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300133141

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My German Question by Peter Gay Pdf

“Not only a memoir, it’s also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany” (Publishers Weekly). In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—“the story,” says Peter Gay, “of a poisoning and how I dealt with it.” With his customary eloquence and analytic acumen, Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings—then and now—toward Germany its people. Gay relates that the early years of the Nazi regime were relatively benign for his family, yet even before the events of 1938–39, culminating in Kristallnacht, they were convinced they must leave the country. Gay describes the bravery and ingenuity of his father in working out this difficult emigration process, the courage of the non-Jewish friends who helped his family during their last bitter months in Germany, and the family’s mounting panic as they witnessed the indifference of other countries to their plight and that of others like themselves. Gay’s account—marked by candor, modesty, and insight—adds an important and curiously neglected perspective to the history of German Jewry. “Not a single paragraph is superfluous. His inquiry rivets without let up, powered by its unremitting candor.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “[An] eloquent memoir.” —The Wall Street Journal “A moving testament to the agony the author experienced.” —Chicago Tribune “[A] valuable chronicle of what life was like for those who lived through persecution and faced execution.” —Choice

Author : Dirk Verheyen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974137

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The German Question by Dirk Verheyen Pdf

The 'German Question,' long a subject of debate, is considered here at the close of a turbulent century, after Germany's defeat in two world wars, the Weimar failure and Nazi disaster, Cold War division, and the nation's unexpected recent reunification. This book systematically explores the issue in terms of its four central dimensions: Germany's identity, national unity, power, and role in world politics. Ambitious in conception and meticulous in execution, Dirk Verheyen's wide-ranging analysis incorporates historical and geopolitical considerations in an intellectually rigorous yet accessible discussion.

Author : David Schoenbaum,Elizabeth Pond
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312160488

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The German Question and Other German Questions by David Schoenbaum,Elizabeth Pond Pdf

The German Question and Other German Questions is an unconventional overview of a new and normal Germany, fifty years after the Second World War and five years after unification, by an American historian and an American journalist with over fifty years of professional German-watching between them. Among other "German Questions", they address the interactions of ageing, immigration and unification on a tangled national identity, and their impact on a cautious yet resilient society and an inertial yet dynamic economy. They then consider the frequently surprising and even exemplary ways Germans have learned to cope with one another, redefine and pursue their interests, and deal with a changing world after two dictatorships, two world wars and one cold war.

Author : Paul Lawrence Rose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400861118

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German Question/Jewish Question by Paul Lawrence Rose Pdf

In this compelling narrative of antisemitism in German thought, Paul Rose proposes a fresh view of the topic. Beginning with an examination of the attitudes of Martin Luther, he challenges distinctions between theologically derived (medieval) and secular, "racial" (modern) antisemitism, arguing that there is an unbroken chain of antisemitic feeling between the two periods. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Imanuel Geiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136185687

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The Question of German Unification by Imanuel Geiss Pdf

The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe, the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification presents an introduction to the last two hundred years of German history and addresses questions raised by the status of Germany as a single or split national state. Imanuel Geiss: * argues that Germany has fluctuated all too frequently, and catastrophically, between being the power centre of Europe or a power vacuum * describes the special features of German history and looks at Germany within a European framework * analyses the political, economic and social aspects of German Nationalism as well as the impact of the collapse of Communism on Germany, through detailing long-term structures and processes * includes discussion of recent political events as well as a chronology and further reading. Imanuel Geiss reflects on the irrationalities of German history, surveys how they have been explained by historians, and provides a succinct and readable account of the complex issues involved.

Author : Nicolas Lewkowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716141001

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The German Question and the Origins of the Cold War by Nicolas Lewkowicz Pdf

This book analyzes the role of the German Question in the origins of the Cold War. The work evaluates the transformation which occurred in Germany and the post-war international order due to the inter-Allied work on denazification. The author analyses the Rationalist aspects of superpower interaction, with particular emphasis on the legal and diplomatic framework which sustained not only the treatment of the German Question but also the general context of inter-Allied relations. The author also tackles the conflictual aspects of the treatment of the German Question by examining superpower interaction in relation to the enforcement of their structural interests. The main argument of the book is that due to the interaction between the elements of intervention and coexistence, the German Question constituted the most significant issue in the configuration of the post-war international order.

Author : Christian F. Ostermann,Malcolm Byrne
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 9639241571

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Uprising in East Germany 1953 by Christian F. Ostermann,Malcolm Byrne Pdf

"A detailed introductory essay to provide the necessary historical and political context precedes each part. The individual documents are introduced by short headnotes summarizing the contents and orienting the reader. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Karl Jaspers
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823220632

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The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers Pdf

Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. “Are the German people guilty?” These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity and morality in a disordered world. Jaspers, a life-long liberal, attempted in this book to discuss rationally a problem that had thus far evoked only heat and fury. Neither an evasive apology nor a wholesome condemnation, his book distinguished between types of guilt and degrees of responsibility. He listed four categories of guilt: criminal guilt (the commitment of overt acts), political guilt (the degree of political acquiescence in the Nazi regime), moral guilt (a matter of private judgment among one’s friends), and metaphysical guilt (a universally shared responsibility of those who chose to remain alive rather than die in protest against Nazi atrocities). Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) took his degree in medicine but soon became interested in psychiatry. He is the author of a standard work of psychopathology, as well as special studies on Strindberg, Van Gogh and Nietsche. After World War I he became Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg, where he achieved fame as a brilliant teacher and an early exponent of existentialism. He was among the first to acquaint German readers with the works of Kierkegaard. Jaspers had to resign from his post in 1935. From the total isolation into which the Hitler regime forced him, Jaspers returned in 1945 to a position of central intellectual leadership of the younger liberal elements of Germany. In his first lecture in 1945, he forcefully reminded his audience of the fate of the German Jews. Jaspers’s unblemished record as an anti-Nazi, as well as his sentient mind, have made him a rallying point center for those of his compatriots who wish to reconstruct a free and democratic Germany.

Author : Sven Oliver Müller,Cornelius Torp
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452870

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Imperial Germany Revisited by Sven Oliver Müller,Cornelius Torp Pdf

The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.

Author : D. Schoenbaum,E. Pond
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333647939

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The German Question and Other German Questions by D. Schoenbaum,E. Pond Pdf

`...a most significant addition to the literature on its subject.' - Roger Morgan, Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence An unconventional overview of a new and normal Germany fifty years after World War 2 and five years after unification. The authors address the challenges of ageing and migration to a tangled national identity; their impact on a cautious yet resilient society, and an inertial yet dynamic economy; and the frequently surprising ways Germans have learned to cope with one another, redefine and pursue their interests, and deal with a changing world after two dictatorships, two world wars, and one cold war.

Author : Renata Fritsch-Bournazel
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001660286

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Confronting the German Question by Renata Fritsch-Bournazel Pdf

Author : Peter Alter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : German reunification question (1949-1990)
ISBN : OCLC:1280770654

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The German Question and Europe by Peter Alter Pdf