What does the unification of Germany really mean? In their stimulating exploration of that question, Andrei S. Markovits and Simon Reich sketch diametrically different interpretations than are frequently offered by commentators. One is that Germany, well aware of the Holocaust, has been 'Europeanized' and is now prepared to serve as the capitalist and democratic locomotive that powers Europe. The other is that the proclivities behind Auschwitz have been suppressed rather than obliterated from the German psyche. Germany's liberal democracy was imposed by the allied victors, according to this view, and will one day dissolve, revealing the old expansionist tendencies to try to 'Germanize' all of Europe. Markovits and Reich argue that benign contemporary assessments of Germany's postwar democracy, combined with admiration for the country's economic achievements, contribute to German influence far greater than military might was able to achieve. Yet, at the same time, some Germans have internalized liberal and pacifist principles and now see their nation as powerless, simply a larger Switzerland. As a result, while the Germans have enormous influence and latitude, they have not taken responsibility for leadership. The prime reason for this gap beween ideology and structure, Markovits and Reich suggest, lies in the politics of collective memory.
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The West German "economic miracle," Simon Reich suggests, may be best understood as a result of the discriminatory economic policies of the Nazi regime.
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This volume traces the difficult passage of German society to modernity offering new perspectives on the "German question," largely characterized by the absence of key ideological underpinnings of democracy in the early modern period and a ...
Tagebuch über die ereignisse der letzten Kriegswochen, die militärische Besetzung und den politischen Umschwung in Oberampfrach, 26. ... The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II (New York: New York Univ.
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"The German Lesson marks a double triumph--a book of rare depth and brilliance, to begin with, presented in an English version that succeeds against improbable odds in conveying the full power of the original.
136 Lead article for Das Reich (31 May 1942), reprinted in J. Noakes and G. Pridham, eds., Nazism – 1919–1945: A Documentary Reader [vol. 4] (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000), 486–87. 1 Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in the ...
This book analyzes the major post-unification developments that have tested and shaped the “new Germany” from a multilevel perspective.