Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity

by Biess, Frank; Roseman, Mark; Schissler, Hanna

• ISBN13: 9781845452001
• ISBN10: 1845452003
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany and innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany's descent into and emergence from the Nazi catastrophe. It explores relations between society, economy and international policy, focusing in particular on relations between elites and the wider society, and it provides new insights into the complex continuities and discontinuities of modern German history. A series of case studies is complemented by an extensive historiographical section.

Table of Contents

German elites and an unruly society
Kulturkampf and Geschlechterkampf : anti-Catholicism, Catholic women, and public space	p. 27
The 1923 Ruhr crisis : the limits of active resistance	p. 44
Political violence, Gesinnung, and the courts in Late Weimar Berlin	p. 60
German society and a violent regime
Beyond conviction? : perpetrators, ideas and action in the holocaust in historiographical perspective	p. 83
The dissolution of the Third Reich	p. 104
The search for missing soldiers : MIAs, POWs, and ordinary Germans, 1943-45	p. 117
Change and continuity in Germany's foreign relations
The Kaiser and his English relations revisited	p. 137
Appeasement and counter-appeasement : Nazi-Soviet collaboration 1939-1941	p. 157
Imperialism as a paradigm for modern German history	p. 177
Americanization as a paradigm of German history	p. 200
Smooth surfaces, murky depths : the social and cultural history of the Federal Republic
The radicalization that never was? : refugees in the German Federal Republic	p. 221
Germany's special path? : economic sciences and politics in the Federal Republic, 1945-1970	p. 237
Catholic elites, gender, and unintended consequences in the 1950s : toward a reinterpretation of the role of conservatives in the Federal Republic	p. 252
Memory, morality, and the sexual liberalization of West Germany	p. 273
The modern guild : rotary clubs and bourgeois renewal in the aftermath of national socialism	p. 297
Fighting to win the peace : 08/15 and West German memories of the Second World War	p. 318
Rehabilitating fatherland : race and German remasculinization	p. 340
Epilogue : Zeitgenossenschaft : some reflections on doing contemporary German history	p. 360
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