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A joint publication of Georgetown University’s BMW Center for German and European Studies and all North American universities featuring programs and centers of German and European studies associated with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Editor: Jeffrey Anderson, Georgetown University Managing Editor: Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University

German Politics and Society is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn Journals. It is the only American publication that explores issues in modern Germany from the combined perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies.

The journal provides a forum for critical analysis and debate about politics, history, film, literature, visual arts, and popular culture in contemporary Germany. Every issue includes contributions by renowned scholars commenting on recent books about Germany.

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Class Cleansing: The Massacre at Katyn by Victor Zaslavsky Revisiting the events of the 1940 Katyn Massacre, in which some 25,000 Polish prisoners of war were shot by the Soviet secret police on Stalin’s orders, Victor Zaslavsky explores a paradigmatic and terrifying example of the policy of class cleansing practiced in the Soviet Union and its occupied territories during World War II. By blaming the Katyn Massacre on the Nazis, the Soviets constructed one of the greatest historiographical falsifications of the twentieth century. Based on secret documents of the Soviet regime that became available only after its collapse, Zaslavsky unearths the methods used to create and maintain the Soviet “official version” of what happened at Katyn. $19.95 | Paperback ISBN 978-0-914386-41-4

On Pain by Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger’s On Pain is an astonishing essay that announces the rise of a new metaphysics of pain in a totalitarian age. Jünger rejects the liberal values of liberty, security, ease, and comfort, and seeks instead the measure of man in the capacity to withstand pain and sacrifice. On Pain heralds the rise of a breed of men who—equipped with an unmatched ability to treat themselves and others in a cold and detached way—become one with new, terrorizing machines of death and destruction in human-guided torpedoes and manned airborne missiles, and whose “peculiarly cruel way of seeing,” resembling the $19.95 | Paperback insensitive lens of a camera, anticipates the horrors of World War II. ISBN 978-0-914386-40-7

Confronting the Crisis: Writings of Paul Piccone Edited and introduced by Gary Ulmen Confronting the Crisis gathers together for the first time the full range of Paul Piccone’s best writings from Telos. It covers the progress of both Piccone’s thinking and the journal’s project, beginning with early investigations into phenomenology and Marxism, as well as pioneering studies of Critical Theory and “artificial negativity.” It includes far-sighted analyses of new developments, such as the rise of the New Class and the decline of traditional divisions between Left and Right, and it leads eventually to a consideration of the political possibilities of federalism and a reinvigorated populism. $39.95 | Hardcover ISBN 978-0-914386-38-4

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