Children of a New Fatherland: Germany's Post-war Right Wing Politics

ISBN-13: 9781860644580 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str.

Jan Herman Brinks;David Binder

Opis

This is a powerful study of the growth of the right wing in a reunited Germany. Setting this in its historical context, and especially in the context of the end of the Cold War, the author examines the implosion of communism and of the growth of xenophobia and right-wing politics in modern and contemporary Europe. The backdrop of 20th century German history and of Germany's position as the European regional super-power make this book an especially important and topical contribution.

Spis treści

Part 1 - BackgroundGerman PartitionThe Two-Tier SocietyXenophobia and Right-Wing Radical Tendencies among Young People in East GermanyNational-Revolutionary Sentiments in the Former GDR?Part 2 - History and Political Culture of the GDRRight-Wing Authoritarian Views in a NutshellImposition of Party Line and Militarization of East GermanyThe Language of the Third Reich and Anti-Semitism in the GDR"Our Goethe, Your Mengele", or Legitimizing Anti-FascismThe Ravensbruecker Ballade and "Antifascism"The GDR and the Legacy of German Political LutheranismThe GDR and the Legacy of Prussian Political IdealsPart 3 - The Right Wing of the United GermanyAn Anti-"Anti-Fascist" Iconoclastic Fury?The HistorikerstreitThe New RightThe RepublikanerAnti-semitismThe Debate on Asylum-Seekers and the Influence of the New RightPoland, the New Right, German Conservatives and "Ordinary Germans"Weimar Revisited?

O autorze

Jan Herman Brinks was a freelance writer living in Germany. He sadly passed away in 2020.