Fritz Stern argues that the best way to describe the character of Imperial Germany after 1878 is illiberal, which describes the German commitment in mind and policy against any further concession to democracy.
Fritz Stern argues that the best way to describe the character of Imperial Germany after 1878 is illiberal, which describes the German commitment in m...
Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, at home questions of responsibility and retribution were not so clear. In this masterful examination of Germany under Adenauer, Norbert Frei shows that, beginning in 1949, the West German government dramatically reversed the denazification policies of the immediate postwar period and initiated a new...
Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, mo...
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past.
Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich,...
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this u...
Eines der erfolgreichsten Bücher von Fritz Stern ist - eine Anthologie. Zwei Ziele hatte der noch junge Historiker vor Augen, als er vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert die erste von vielen Auflagen herausbrachte: Er wollte die Betrachtungen ganz unterschiedlicher Historiker über die großen Fragen der Geschichte vorstellen und zugleich den Leser mit den wichtigsten Tendenzen der Geschichtsschreibung seit der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts vertraut machen. §Das Ergebnis war ein Geniestreich, ein Füllhorn historischer Reflexionen, das nicht nur die Kunst und Vielfalt der Geschichtsschreibung...
Eines der erfolgreichsten Bücher von Fritz Stern ist - eine Anthologie. Zwei Ziele hatte der noch junge Historiker vor Augen, als er vor mehr als ein...
