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...
Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy. James Joll, The New York Times Book Review I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work of original scholarship, both exact and profound. It restores a buried chapter of history and penetrates, with insight and understanding, one of the most disturbing historical problems of modern...
Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award A major contribution to our understanding of some of t...
This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as...
This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study ...
"Niemand hat so präzise wie Stern den Kulturpessimismus des 19. Jahrhunderts als politische Gefahr beschrieben und in ihm eine mentale Voraussetzung zum Aufkommen des Nationalsozialismus erkannt." Wolf Lepenies
"Niemand hat so präzise wie Stern den Kulturpessimismus des 19. Jahrhunderts als politische Gefahr beschrieben und in ihm eine mentale Voraussetzung ...
