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"By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by oil shocks, technological advances, protest movements, and other phenomena so diffuse that they could hardly be contained by the Berlin Wall. Accordingly, Divided History offers a collective portrait of the two Germanies that is both broad and deep. It brings together comprehensive thematic surveys by specialists in politics, media, the environment, and similar topics to assemble a monumental account of both nations from the crises of the 1970s to--and beyond--the reunification era"--

Germany (East)-History. --- Germany (West)-History. --- Germany-History-1990-. --- History. --- Germany (West) --- Germany (East) --- Germany --- History --- East Germany. --- Postwar Germany. --- Reunification. --- West Germany.

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Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy given Schmitt's unwavering support for National Socialism before and during World War II. In Perilous Futures, Peter Uwe Hohendahl calls for critical scrutiny of Schmitt's later writings, the work in which Schmitt wrestles with concerns that retain present-day relevance: globalization, asymmetrical warfare, and the shifting international order. Hohendahl argues that Schmitt's work seems to offer solutions to these present-day issues, although the ambiguity of his beliefs means that Schmitt's later work is a problematic guide. Focusing on works Schmitt published after the war-including The Nomos of the Earth, Theory of the Partisan and Political Theology II-as well as his posthumously published diaries, Hohendahl reads these works critically against the backdrop of their biographical and historical contexts, he charts the shift in Schmitt's perspective from a German nationalist focus to a European and then international agenda, while attending to both the conceptual and theoretical continuities with his prewar work and addressing the tension between the specific circumstances in which Schmitt was writing and the later international appropriation. Crossing disciplines of history, political theory, international relations, German studies, and political philosophy, Hohendahl brings Schmitt's later writings into contemporary discourse and forces us to reexamine what we believe about Carl Schmitt.

Political science --- Philosophy --- History --- Schmitt, Carl, --- carl schmitt and national socialism, carl schmitt and liberalism, carl schmitt’s role in postwar germany, carl schmitt defense of european colonialism, carl schmitt theory of modern war, carl schmitt diaries.

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In receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, Günter Grass, a prominent and controversial figure in the ongoing discussion of the German past and reunification, finally gained recognition as Germany's greatest living author, a writer of international importance and acclaim. Grass's 1959 novel 'The Tin Drum' remains one of the most important works of literature for the construction of postwar German identity. Peter Arnds offers a completely new reading of the novel, analyzing an aspect of Grass's literary treatment of German history that has never been examined in detail: the Nazi ideology of race and eugenics, which resulted in the persecution of so-called asocials as 'life unworthy of life,' their extermination in psychiatric institutions in the Third Reich, and their marginalization in the Adenauer period. Arnds shows that in order to represent the Nazi past and subvert bourgeois paradigms of rationalism, Grass revives several facets of popular culture that National Socialism either suppressed or manipulated for its ideology of racism. In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these 'asocials,' for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that Grass creates in the novel an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a 'Stunde Null,' that putative tabula rasa in 1945. Peter O. Arnds is associate professor of German and Italian at Kansas State University.

Eugenics in literature. --- Grass, Günter, --- Grass, Günter, --- German past. --- Günter Grass. --- Nazi ideology of race. --- Nazi ideology. --- Nazi science. --- Nobel Prize for Literature. --- Stunde Null. --- The Tin Drum. --- asocials. --- destruction rationalism. --- eugenics. --- postwar German identity. --- postwar Germany. --- representation. --- subversion.

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Millions of former German soldiers (known as Heimkehrer, literally "homecomers," or returnees) returned from captivity as prisoners of war at the end of the Second World War, an experience that had profound effects on German society and touched almost every German family. Based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis ofthe history of the German returnees, explored as a history of memory, both during Germany's division and after unification. At its core lies the question of how the experiences of war captivity were transformed into individual and collective memories. The book argues that memory of the experience of captivity and return is complex and multilayered and has been shaped by postwar political and social frameworks. Christiane Wienand is a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded research project "Reverberations of War: Communities of Experience and Identification in Germany and Europe since 1945." She holds a PhD in History from University College London.

Ex-prisoners of war --- Collective memory --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Ex-prisonniers de guerre --- Mémoire collective --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- History --- Prisoners and prisons. --- Histoire --- Prisonniers et prisons --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Former prisoners of war --- Returned prisoners of war --- Returnees --- Prisoners of war --- Divided Germany. --- Former Prisoners of War. --- German History. --- Memory. --- POWs. --- Postwar Germany. --- Reunited Germany. --- World War II.

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In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of 'ethnic' Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's 'The Air War and Literature' and Grass's 'Crabwalk' are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration. This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the variety of these texts. An opening section on the 1950s - a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration - provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on 'ordinary Germans,' and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors: Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin Schödel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is professor of contemporary German literature, culture, and society, and Karina Berger, B.A., M.St., is a Ph.D. candidate, both at the University of Leeds, UK.

German literature --- Germans in literature. --- Victims in literature. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism --- World War, 1939-1945, in literature --- 20th century. --- Allied Bombing Campaign. --- Allied bombing campaign. --- Balance. --- Contemporary Debates. --- Expulsions. --- German Literary Fiction. --- German Perpetration. --- German Responsibility. --- German Victimhood. --- German literary fiction. --- Holocaust. --- Internment. --- Mass Rapes. --- Persecution. --- Postwar Germany. --- Second World War. --- World War II. --- expulsions. --- internment. --- mass rapes. --- perpetration. --- persecution. --- victims.