Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Germany

Walter McDougall offers an original analysis of Versailles diplomacy from the standpoint of the power that had the most direct interest and took the first initiatives in the search for a solution to the German problem.

The author's new view of the struggle for execution or revision of the Versailles treaty holds sober implications for assessment of the political origins of international anarchy during the 1930s and European integration in the 1950s. He shows that the Treaty of Versailles was unenforceable, and that the French postwar government, far from enjoying predominance in...

Examining the convergence of socialism and feminism in the German labor movement around the turn of the century, Jean Quataert probes the competing identities and loyalties of class and sex and the problems their adherents faced in reconciling the two. By focusing on the women's movement in particular, she expands our understanding of the German Social Democratic subculture and shows that socialist feminism was far more important than has been recognized heretofore.

Originally published in 1979.

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Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace. He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be...

Zwischen dem Gottinger Mathematiker Carl Friedrich Gauss und dem norwegischen Astronom und Physiker Christopher Hansteen liegt ein reger Briefwechsel vor, der von 1832 bis kurz vor dem Tod von Gauss im Jahre 1855 wahrte. Erstmals wird hier eine kritische Edition der vorhandenen Briefe vorgelegt. Vorrangiges Thema ist die Erforschung des Erdmagnetismus, eines Gebietes der sich damals im Aufbau befindenden neuen Disziplin Geophysik.

Warum halfen Menschen untergetauchten Juden im Nationalsozialismus? Diese Studie untersucht die Interaktionen zwischen Helfern und Hilfsempfangern mit Ruckgriff auf Methoden der Sozialen Netzwerkforschung. Anhand von sechs Berliner Fallstudien untersucht During aus der Perspektive von Helfern und Hilfsempfangern die soziale Verfasstheit von Hilfsbereitschaft, Vertrauensbildung, Netzwerkeffekte und die Praxis der Hilfe im Alltag.

This seventh volume in the magisterial 10-volume series from the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt Research Institute for Military History] shows both Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive, from 1943 into early 1945. It looks in depth at the strategic air war over the Reich and the mounting toll taken in the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg, and...

In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself incubated Diderot's great Encyclopedie by hiding the banned project's papers in his Paris townhouse. Relationships at court...

In the ghettos of Lithuania an urban infrastructure developed based on the needs of Jewish conscription and forced labor for German occupation forces and the Lithuanian administration. Using the example of the ghettos in Vilnius, Kaunas, and iauliai, the author reveals for the first time the ways to which Jewish labor conscription was organized inside and outside the ghettos and the patterns of daily ghetto life as seen by the inhabitants.

Von 1945 bis 1961 verfassten ehemalige Wehrmachtsoffiziere fur die U.S. Armee tausende historische Studien. Weltanschauliche Gemeinsamkeiten mit den Amerikanern und der aufziehende Kalte Krieg ermoglichten den deutschen Militars, eine apologetische und den deutschen Vernichtungskrieg negierende Geschichtsdeutung zu entwickeln. Zur transatlantischen Verbreitung dieser Legende von der "sauberen Wehrmacht" trug die Historical Division aktiv bei.

The authors present the most important iconographic sources for German mythology and heroic legends and discuss the latest research. A focus is on interpretation and on new technical methods for autopsy and visual documentation. The geographic scope includes Scandinavia, England, and Germany; the time frame extends from the period of the Roman Empire to the late Viking Age.

As an esteemed historian, Karl Bosl persuaded people for some time that he had acted critically toward the Nazis and even participated in the resistance. Doubts about this story only arose much later. This edition, significantly expanded based on new sources, examines Bosl's involvement with National Socialism behind the myth and discusses the controversy about Bosl that has raged since 2010 among historians and in newspapers.