The welfare state was one of the pillars of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar experiment in democracy depended to no small degree upon the welfare system's ability to give German citizens at least a fundamental level of material and mental security in the face of the new risks to which they had been exposed by the effects of the lost war, revolution, and inflation. But the problems of the postwar period meant that, even in its best years, the Weimar welfare state was dangerously overburdened. The onset of the Depression and the growth of mass unemployment after 1929 destroyed republican...
The welfare state was one of the pillars of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar experiment in democracy depended to no small degree upon the welfare syste...
The welfare state was one of the pillars of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar experiment in democracy depended to no small degree upon the welfare system's ability to give German citizens at least a fundamental level of material and mental security in the face of the new risks to which they had been exposed by the effects of the lost war, revolution, and inflation. But the problems of the postwar period meant that, even in its best years, the Weimar welfare state was dangerously overburdened. The onset of the Depression and the growth of mass unemployment after 1929 destroyed republican...
The welfare state was one of the pillars of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar experiment in democracy depended to no small degree upon the welfare syste...
The totalitarian image of the Third Reich has been thoroughly displaced during the past two decades by new research on the social history of the Nazi years which reveals the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. The articles in this textbook address the key debates, include recent revisionist and challenging interpretations and raise methodological and theoretical questions. The book includes several German authors not easily available in English and presents many viewpoints in a coherent structure.
The totalitarian image of the Third Reich has been thoroughly displaced during the past two decades by new research on the social history of the Nazi ...
The totalitarian image of the Third Reich has been thoroughly displaced during the past two decades by new research on the social history of the Nazi years which reveals the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. The articles in this textbook address the key debates, include recent revisionist and challenging interpretations and raise methodological and theoretical questions. The book includes several German authors not easily available in English and presents many viewpoints in a coherent structure.
The totalitarian image of the Third Reich has been thoroughly displaced during the past two decades by new research on the social history of the Nazi ...
Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime suffering most quickly and most thoroughly. Consumption and the quality of everyday life quickly became important battlefields upon which the East-West conflict would be fought. This book focuses on the competing types of consumer societies that developed over time in the two Germanies and the legacy each left.
Consuming Germany in the Cold War assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the...
Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of the...
