The Germans in their Century: 1890-1990 by Christian Graf Von Krockow

by Krockow, Christian Graf; Jarausch, Konrad H.; Schweitzer, Reicke

• ISBN13: 9780719080869
• ISBN10: 071908086X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

Why did Bismarck's new German State Degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich? What happened to Europes leading industrial nation -- cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach? How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945? In this unique and controversial study the author -- Prussian aristocrat, writer, scholar, historian and patriot -- fearlessly explores German social mores, political structures and national psyche over several centuries. V. Krockow draws some sobering and novel conclusions about the unfolding drama in general and the Holocaust in particular. First published in 1990 to coincide with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German edition sold widely. This first translation now makes it available to English-speaking readers worldwide.

Author Biography

Reicke Schweitzer lives with his wife, Louise, in Brighton. Christian Graf Von Krockow (May 26, 1927 - March 17, 2002) was a German writer and political scientist. Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

List of maps * Introduction by Professor Dr. Konrad Jarausch * Preface * WILHELMIAN PRELUDE 1890–1914 * About peace and progress * A society without self-confidence * Ship without a rudder * THE GERMAN DRAMA, 1914–45 * War *  The November republic * The decision * Life in the Third Reich * The ultimate crime for the ultimate delusion * THE GERMANS SINCE 1945 * The return of the citizen * A new start and fresh anxieties * An end, a beginning – the Germans 1989–90 * Epilogue: Germany - a Drama of tragedy enacted on the European stage of reason * Translator’s postscript * Index of Names