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Adolf Hitler
Aftermath of World War II
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Bielefeld School
Blockade of Germany (1939-45)
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Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
Communism
Cultural Bolshevism
Daniel Goldhagen
Dictatorship
Disenchantment
Eckart Kehr
Edgar Julius Jung
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Federal republic
Friedrich Meinecke
Friedrich Naumann
Fritz Fischer
Germans
Hans Grimm
Hans-Ulrich Wehler
Heinrich von Sybel
Heinrich von Treitschke
Historikerstreit
Historiography
Hitler's Willing Executioners
Ideology
Imperialism
Inside the Third Reich
Jews
Karl Jaspers
Konrad Adenauer
Kulturkampf
Kurt Schumacher
Labour movement
Martin Broszat
Marxism
Modernity
Nation state
Nazi crime
Nazi Germany
Nazi Party
Nazi propaganda
Nazism
Ostpolitik
Otto von Bismarck
Persecution
Politics
Postmodernism
Racism
Ralf Dahrendorf
Reactionary modernism
Revolutions of 1989
Social history
Sonderweg
Soviet Union
Superiority (short story)
The Fatherland
Thomas Nipperdey
Totalitarianism
Umvolkung
Uwe Johnson
Volksgemeinschaft
War
Warfare
Weimar culture
Weimar Republic
West Germany
World War I
World War II
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- ISBN 9780691059365
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the postmodern shift call for a new reading of the country's turbulent development, one that no longer suggests continuity but rupture and conflict. Comprising original essays, the book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are now losing their hold.
Treated next are major issues of recent debate that suggest how new kinds of German history might be written: annihilationist warfare, complicity with dictatorship, the taming of power, the impact of migration, the struggle over national identity, redefinitions of womanhood, and the development of consumption as well as popular culture. The concluding chapters reflect on the country's gradual transition from chaos to civility. This penetrating study will spark a fresh debate about the meaning of the German past during the last century. There is no single master narrative, no Weltgeist, to be discovered. But there is a fascinating story to be told in many different ways.
Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany. He is the author of "Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany" (Princeton), "The Unfree Professions", and "The Rush to German Unity". Michael Geyer is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Well known for his research in military history and in theoretical and methodological problems in European and world history, he is a co-editor of "Resistance Against the Third Reich, 1933-1990". He has published widely on war and violence, twentieth-century German history, as well as the history of globalization and is, most recently, the editor of "The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany".
