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FORTHCOMING Volume 25 Number 2 1992 ARTICLES Rethinking the Categories of the German Revolution of 1848: The Emergence of Popular Conservatism in Bavaria James F. Harris The Political Calculus of Capital: Banking and the Business Class in Prussia, 1848-1856 James M. Brophy The End of the "Final Solution"?: Nazi Plans to Ransom Jews in 1944 Richard Breitman and Shlomo Aronson Rehearsal for "Reinhard"?: Odilo Globocnik and the Lublin Selbstschutz Peter R. Black BOOK REVIEWS England and the German Hanse, 1157-1611: A Study of Their Trade and Commercial Diplomacy, by T. H. Lloyd (Herbert H. Kaplan) Frauen und Dissens: Frauen im Deutschkatholizismus und in den freien Gemeinden, 1841-1852, by Sylvia Paletschek Gonathan Sperber) Von Heidelberg nach Berlin: Friedrich Ebert 1871-1905, by Ronald A. Muench (William Carl Mathews) Fields of Knowledge. French Academic Culture in Comparative Perspective, 1890-1920, by Fritz Ringer (Charles E. McClelland) A Nation of Provincials. The German Idea of Heimat, by Celia Applegate (James H. Jackson, Jr.) On Socialists and "The Jewish Question" after Marx, by Jack Jacobs (Albert S. Lindemann) Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922, by Carol Fink, Axel Frohn, and Jiirgen Heideking, eds. Appeasing Fascism: Articles from the Wayne State University Conference on Munich after Fifty Years, by Melvin Small and Otto Feinstein, eds. (A. J. Nicholls) Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 27 Sep 2021 at 00:07:38, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938900019671 FORTHCOMING (cont.) On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy, by Tom Rockmore (Peter Bergmann) The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945, by Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann (Lawrence D. -
Der Historikerstreit Wie Geht Die Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft Mit Der Nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit Um? Aus
Peter Borowsky Der Historikerstreit Wie geht die deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft mit der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit um? aus Peter Borowsky Schlaglichter historischer Forschung Studien zur deutschen Geschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Rainer Hering und Rainer Nicolaysen S. 63–87 Impressum Bibliografische Information Der Deutschen Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Na- tionalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.ddb.de abrufbar. Die Online-Version dieser Publikation ist auf der Verlagswebsite frei verfüg- bar (open access). Die Deutsche Bibliothek hat die Netzpublikation archi- viert. Diese ist dauerhaft auf dem Archivserver Der Deutschen Bibliothek verfügbar. Open access verfügbar über die folgenden Webseiten: Hamburg University Press – http://hup.rrz.uni-hamburg.de Archivserver Der Deutschen Bibliothek – http://deposit.ddb.de ISBN: 3-937816-17-8 (Printausgabe) © 2005 Hamburg University Press, Hamburg Rechtsträger: Universität Hamburg, Deutschland Produktion: Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH, Hamburg, Deutschland http://www.ew-gmbh.de Peter Borowsky (1938–2000) war ein engagierter Geschichtsforscher und begeisternder Geschichtsvermittler. Mehr als 30 Jahre lehrte er am Histo- rischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg Neuere Geschichte. Er prägte Generationen von Studierenden nachhaltig durch seine Kompetenz und sei- ne Art, Geschichte lebendig zu vermitteln. Diese wird auch in den 14 Beiträ- gen zur deutschen Geschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert deutlich, die hier erstmals veröffentlicht werden. Die Themenpalette reicht von den Ho- henzollern bis zur politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, um- fasst die Studenten in der Revolution von 1848, Hamburger Geschichte im 19. Jahrhundert, die Entwicklung von der Weimarer Republik zum „Dritten Reich“, die deutschen Beziehungen zu osteuropäischen Staaten und den USA. -
German Strategic Culture and the Holocaust Jørgen Staun Royal Danish Defence College, DK [email protected]
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF Staun, J. (2020). The Slow Path Towards ‘Normality’: German Strategic MILITARY STUDIES Culture and the Holocaust. Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 3(1), pp. 84–99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.34 RESEARCH ARTICLE The Slow Path Towards ‘Normality’: German Strategic Culture and the Holocaust Jørgen Staun Royal Danish Defence College, DK [email protected] Despite being the largest, richest and most populous country in Europe, and despite being situated at the centre of Europe and thus affected by most developments in Europe, Germany is still somewhat reluctant to take on a leading role in Europe – most notably when it comes to security issues. The reason is that German strategic culture is still highly influenced by the collective remembrance of the Holocaust and the lessons Germany has drawn from it. The Holocaust Nation discourse has so far limited and delayed all attempts to develop a more active Germany within foreign and security policy. Germany may be on its way to becoming a more active great power, but it is happening at a slow pace, and the situation is still far from ‘normal’. Keywords: Germany; Holocaust; strategic culture; Historikerstreit; foreign policy; security policy; identity Introduction Historically, declining powers have been slow to accept a more modest role in world events. Conversely, ‘rising states have not infrequently failed to expand their external involvement in step with increases in the relative national power’ (Duffield, 1999, p. 768). How can this inertia be explained? This essay tries to explore the ‘underexpansion’ or ‘underbalancing’ (Reichwein, 2012) of one particular state, namely Germany, by studying its strategic culture. -
Germans As Victims?
Germans as Victims? Germans as Victims? Thoughts on a Post–Cold War History of World War II’s Legacies ROBERT G. MOELLER Some fifty years after the end of World War II, many Germans, including leading politicians, public intellectuals, architects, journalists, writers and historians discussed the most effective way to memorialize the Holocaust, mourn Jewish victims of the Nazi state and signify to themselves and the rest of the world that the Nazi attempt to kill all European Jews was central to any complete account of modern German history. After broad public debate, a majority in the parliament determined that in the center of Berlin—a city that with the end of the East–West division of the Cold War had resumed its former prominence as a major capital in the center of Europe—a monument would be constructed to honor the memory of the “murdered Jews of Europe.” Within walking distance of the Brandenburg Gate and the remodeled Reichstag building, since 1998 home of the German parliament, and close to the huge new buildings that have sprung up in the past decade to house the national government, the Holocaust Memorial should serve as a powerful reminder that what joined Germans in the present was a past in which millions of other Germans had enthusiastically supported a regime that had sought to eliminate European Jewry. The Holocaust Memorial will be located on ground that was part of the “no man’s land” running along the wall that for nearly forty years divided East from West Berlin. One part of modern German history will cover another.1 147 Robert G. -
German Historical Institute London Bulletin Vol 27 (2005), No. 1
German Historical Institute London Bulletin Volume XXVII, No. 1 May 2005 CONTENTS Seminars 3 Article From King to Führer: The German Aristocracy and the Nazi Movement (Stephan Malinowski) 5 Review Articles Germans and Blacks—Black Germans (Matthias Reiss) 29 ‘Moralische Schizophrenie’—Germanists and the Third Reich (Michael Butler) 41 Book Reviews Christian Lackner, Hof und Herrschaft: Rat, Kanzlei und Regierung der österreichischen Herzöge (1365–1406) (Karsten Plöger) 59 Peter Wolf, Michael Henker, Evamaria Brockhoff et al. (eds.), Der Winterkönig: Friedrich V. Der letzte Kurfürst aus der Oberen Pfalz. Amberg, Heidelberg, Prag, Den Haag. Katalog zur Bayerischen Landesausstellung 2003 (Trevor Johnson) 63 Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revol- utionary Age, 1780–1830 (Ute Schneider) 68 Lothar Kittstein, Politik im Zeitalter der Revolution: Untersuchun- gen zur preußischen Staatlichkeit 1792–1807 (Phillip G. Dwyer) 74 Tilman Fischer, Reiseziel England: Ein Beitrag zur Poetik der Reisebeschreibung und zur Topik der Moderne (1830–1870) (Editha Ulrich) 78 (cont.) Contents Arne Perras, Carl Peters and German Imperialism 1856–1918: A Political Biography (Benedikt Stuchtey) 83 Gerd Hankel, Die Leipziger Prozesse: Deutsche Kriegsverbrechen und ihre strafrechtliche Verfolgung nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Alan Kramer) 89 Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich; id., Das Dritte Reich, vol. 1: Aufstieg (Lothar Kettenacker) 100 Henning Hoff, Großbritannien und die DDR 1955–1973: Diplo- matie auf Umwegen; Hans-Georg Golz, -
Beihefte Der Francia Bd. 62 2006
Beihefte der Francia Bd. 62 2006 Copyright Das Digitalisat wird Ihnen von perspectivia.net, der Online-Publi- kationsplattform der Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswis- senschaftliche Institute im Ausland zur Verfügung gestellt. Bitte be- achten Sie, dass das Digitalisat urheberrechtlich geschützt ist. Er- laubt ist aber das Lesen, das Ausdrucken des Textes, das Herun- terladen, das Speichern der Daten auf einem eigenen Datenträger soweit die vorgenannten Handlungen ausschließlich zu privaten und nicht-kommerziellen Zwecken erfolgen. Eine darüber hinaus- gehende unerlaubte Verwendung, Reproduktion oder Weitergabe einzelner Inhalte oder Bilder können sowohl zivil- als auch straf- rechtlich verfolgt werden. ENLARGING EUROPEAN MEMORY MIGRATION MOVEMENTS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ~ . " e~; ~:.. ~ ~: ~ deutsches historisches institut historique allemand paris BEIHEFTE DER FRANCIA Herausgegeben vom Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris Band 62 ENLARGING EUROPEAN MEMORY MIGRATION MOVEMENTS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE edited by Mareike König and Rainer 0 hliger 00 Jan Thorbecke Verlag ENLARGING EUROPEAN MEMORY MIGRATION MOVEMENTS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Mareike König and Rainer Ohliger (eds) 00 Jan Thorbecke Verlag BEIHEFTE DER FRANCIA Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Werner Paravicini Redaktion: Veronika Vollmer Deutsches Historisches Institut, Hotel Duret de Chevry, 8, rue du Pare-Royal, F-75003 Paris Institutslogo: Heinrich Paravicini, unter Verwendung eines Motivs am Hotel Duret de Chevry Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.ddb.de abrufbar. © 2006 by Jan Thorbecke Verlag der Schwabenverlag AG, Ostfildern www.thorbecke.de·[email protected] Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Ohne schriftliche Genehmigung des Verlages ist es nicht gestattet, das Werk unter Verwendung mechanischer, elektronischer und anderer Systeme in irgendeiner Weise zu verarbei ten und zu verbreiten. -
Historikerstreit
History is??? 1. History is the progression of humans 2. History is the past 3. History is a systematic study of the past 4. “History is an effort to reconstruct the past to discover what people thought and did and how their beliefs and actions continue to influence human life.” [McKay, Hill, and Buckler, History of World Societies, 3rd ed., 1992, p. 4] As a systematic study, the students of history, i.e. historians, are finding out, or trying to find out, A. What happened B. Why it happened C. What is the importance of the event(s) that happened a. Impact of the past on the present HISTORY OF GERMANY AND POLITICS OF HISTORY OF GERMANY AND POLITICS OF GUILT a. Dealing with the history of the Third Reich was not an easy task in Germany. b. Both Germanys, East G and West G, renounced Nazism a. In West Germany Nazism was the reason for setting up a democratic step and turn the Germans in to citizens b. In East Germany it was the reason for setting up a socialist system c. In both Germanys the historiography of the Third Reich was related to and influenced by politics East Germany a. Nazism was a form of imperialism b. Imperialism is the last stage of capitalism c. What comes next is communism d. Communism is the “real” democracy e. In real democracy Nazism is not possible West Germany THREE STAGES of accounting for the past, each reflecting major changes in politics and political consciousness I. 1945-1960: Conservative; tended to repudiate but not take responsibility for Nazism; demonize Hitler and the top Nazi leadership; portray Germany as “seduced” by the Nazis; view Nazism as an accidental aberration in German history; pressures of the Cold War also shifted attention from the Nazi past; schools avoided the subject by ending courses with WWI. -
Aristocracy and the Radical Right in Germany
ECKART CONZE 'Only a dictator can help us now': Aristocracy and the Radical Right in Germany in KARINA URBACH (ed.), European Aristocracies and the Radical Right 1918-1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) pp. 129–147 ISBN: 978 0 199 23173 7 The following PDF is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence. Anyone may freely read, download, distribute, and make the work available to the public in printed or electronic form provided that appropriate credit is given. However, no commercial use is allowed and the work may not be altered or transformed, or serve as the basis for a derivative work. The publication rights for this volume have formally reverted from Oxford University Press to the German Historical Institute London. All reasonable effort has been made to contact any further copyright holders in this volume. Any objections to this material being published online under open access should be addressed to the German Historical Institute London. DOI: 8 'Only a dictator can help us now': Aristocracy and the Radical Right in Germany ECKART CONZE I The public image of the German aristocracy during the Nazi period was long shaped by the events of 20 July and the high proportion of aristocrats involved in the conspiracy culminating in 1944. This has begun to change in recent years. It has frequently been pointed out, especially in the context of the sixti- eth anniversary of the assassination attempt, how strongly aristo- crats themselves were committed, after 1945, to stressing the aristocratic resistance to National Socialism. This has produced a view in which the history of the aristocracy under Nazism was practically identified with that of the resistance. -
German Historical Institute London Bulletin Vol 28 (2006), No. 1
German Historical Institute London Bulletin Volume XXVIII, No. 1 May 2006 CONTENTS Seminars 3 Article Security as a Culture: Reflections on a ‘Modern Political History’ of the Federal Republic of Germany (Eckart Conze) 5 Review Articles Foreign Policy in the Late Middle Ages (Karsten Plöger) 35 Palimpsests of Memory (Kay Schiller) 47 Book Reviews Bernd Roeck, Das historische Auge: Kunstwerke als Zeugen ihrer Zeit. Von der Renaissance zur Revolution (Lee Palmer Wandel) 61 Jeroen Duindam, Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550–1780; Andreas Pecar,ˇ Die Ökonomie der Ehre: Der höfische Adel am Kaiserhof Karls VI. (1711–1740) (Michael Schaich) 69 Ursula Goldenbaum, Appell an das Publikum: Die öffentliche Debatte in der deutschen Aufklärung 1687–1796 (Avi Lifschitz) 79 Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich, and Irina Renz, in conjunction with Markus Pöhlmann (eds.), Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg (Lothar Kettenacker) 87 (cont.) Contents Martin Baumeister, Kriegstheater: Großstadt, Front und Massen- kultur 1914–1918 (Jan Rüger) 92 Robert Gerwarth, The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor (Eberhard Kolb) 99 Frank-Rutger Hausmann (ed.), with the assistance of Elisabeth Müller-Luckner, Die Rolle der Geisteswissenschaften im Dritten Reich 1933–1945; Karl-Heinz Schoeps, Literature and Film in the Third Reich (Michael Butler) 103 Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany (Jürgen Zarusky) 113 Conference Reports The Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815–1914 (Markus Mößlang and Torsten Riotte) 120 Fourth Workshop on Early Modern German History (Michael Schaich) 127 Social Stereotypes and History (Matthias Reiß ) 132 Noticeboard 143 Library News Recent Acquisitions 159 2 SEMINARS AT THE GHIL SUMMER 2006 2 May CHRISTIANE EISENBERG (Berlin) Commerce and Culture in Britain: A German View Christiane Eisenberg has been Professor of British History at the Centre for British Studies of the Humboldt University of Berlin since 1998. -
Reconfiguring National Identity in the Berlin Republic
Identity Creation and the Culture of Contrition: Reconfiguring National Identity in the Berlin Republic Karl Wilds Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Germanic Studies University of Sheffield June 2000 Contents Abstract 1 Acknowledgements 2 1. Introduction: Reconfiguring Identity at the "End of History" 3 and "Beyond the Nation State"? 1.1 National Identity in Flux 4 1.2 Neoconservatives, Left-liberals and Identity 9 1.3 Aims and Limitations of the Thesis 19 2. Salvaging the Past: Neoconservatism, Compensation and 25 National Identity 2.1 A Crisis of Values 25 2.2 Identity versus Emancipation 38 2.3 The Need for Patriotism 49 2.4 Confronting the Past 57 3. The Emancipation from the Past: Critical History and 75 Vefassungspatriotismus 3.1 The "Refounding" of the Federal Republic 75 3.2 The Sonderweg Thesis and Emancipation 85 3.3 Radical Democracy and Emancipation 95 3.4 Post-Traditional Patriotism 104 4. Westbindung and Nation 117 4.1 Victory of the Westbindung? 117 4.2 "Hard Times" and Identity 127 4.3 The Continuities of Geopolitik? 135 5. The 'New Right' and the End of Emancipation 148 5.1 The Renaissance of the Nation 148 5.2 Historisierung and Modernisation 161 5.3 Race, Class and Mass 171 5.4 The End of Emancipation 182 6. The "Westernisation" of the German Nation 192 6.1 The Endangered Republic? 192 6.2 Transcending the Dichotomy between Nation and Republic 199 6.3 "Emancipation" and Post-National Social Solidarity 218 7. The Culture of Contrition and the Reconfiguration of National 232 Identity 7.1 History as Dementi 232 7.2 Learning the "Lessons" of the Past 241 7.3 The Holocaustmahnmal and "Broken Identity" 249 7.4 "Ordinary Germans" - Then and Now.