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Originally published in 1981 this book deals with many the Weimar period, including the revolutionary events following the First World War, the development of the Reichswehr, the role of heavy industry in shaping foreign policy, and the dissolution of the bourgeois party system during the last years before 1933.

A social history of Germany in the years following WWI, this book explores the devastating social and psychological consequences of Germany's defeat and subsequent demobilization offering insights into the sense of dislocation, both personal and national, experienced by Germany and Germans in the 1920s and its damaging legacy for German democracy.

Die letzten Kriegswochen des Jahres 1945. Festgehalten von einer der berühmtesten Fotografinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit größtenteils unveröffentlichten Aufnahmen »Dies ist Deutschland, und es ist Frühling«, schrieb die amerikanische Fotoreporterin Lee Miller, als sie im März 1945 mit US-Truppen ins Rheinland vorrückte. In den kommenden Wochen hielt sie den Einmarsch der Amerikaner, die Zerstörungen und den Alltag der Deutschen in den ersten ...

This volume analyses testimonies of people who lived through the First World War. Without ignoring the war in the west, it broadens the focus to Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Baltic region, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. It offers a critical examination of ego documents and extends our understanding of the war geographically and culturally.

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The forced removal of human beings from their homes for political, economic, 'racial', religious, or cultural reasons is a tragic hallmark of the modern age. The development of a global economy, modern race-thinking, world wars, popular and national sovereignty, and new technological means have given this phenomenon a new character.

Can Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany be compared? Not long ago, the answer seemed obvious: they could be and they were. Nationalist rhetoric, hostility to the left and to parliamentary government, and the glorification of violence seemed to invite comparison. More recently, doubts have arisen. As more attention is paid to the consequences of Nazi racism, it has been questioned whether Nazi Germany can be compared with anything. This collaborativ...

A collection of essays comparing key aspects of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

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Authoritative and dramatic, this groundbreaking history brilliantly explores the devastation and remarkable rebirth of Germany at the end of World War II. b&w, photo insert.

Germany's return to humanity and prosperity is the hinge on which Europe's twentieth century turned. For years we have concentrated on how Europe slid into tyranny, violence, war and genocide, this book describes how humanity began to get back out. GERMANY 1945 is a masterful analysis of one of the most crucial turning points in twentieth-century European history.

Over the past thirty years social scientists and particularly social historians have stressed the need to take popular protest seriously. The corollary of this, the need to take the policing of protest seriously, seems to have been less well acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to redress this situation by probing, in depth, a limited number of incidents of public disorder and focusing particularly on the role of the police. In doing so, th...

Novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War.

The aim of this volume is to redress this situation by probing, in depth, a limited number of incidents of public disorder and focusing particularly on the role of the police. In doing so, this collection will draw out general patterns of police provocation and public responses and suggest general hypotheses.

The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war's scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the war launched by Nazi Germany was an ideological one, waged to wipe entire peoples and cultures from the face of the earth. In ...

Over 450, 000 German troops were lost in the January of 1945 as they fought to keep Russia back from their eastern border. That is higher than the total number of casualties lost by Britain or America in all theatres during the entire war. Hitler and his army fought to the bitter end, declaring war on America before being crushed by the allied forces, its military machine smashed and its leadership destroyed. But what about the average German ...

Even today, the Third Reich--the regime that instigated the most destructive war in modern history--evokes powerful images of fascination and horror. Yet how were the lives of the ordinary German people of the 1930s and '40s affected by the politics of Hitler and his followers? Looking beyond the catalog of events, this intriguing book reveals that daily German life involved a complex mixture of bribery and terror, of fear and concessions, of ...

Novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War.