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The German Myth of the East
An examination of the various different expressions of the distinctive German 'myth of the East' that has been such a marked feature of German culture over the last two centuries, influencing German attitudes both to Eastern Europe itself and also to Germans' own sense of identity.
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Dekolonisierungsgewinner
Im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges und der Dekolonisierung wurden die Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen beider deutscher Staaten vor allem durch politisch-strategische Ziele beeinflusst.Die Entstehung zweier Wirtschafts- und Militärblöcke seit Ende der 1940er Jahre wirkte sich auch auf die Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen der Bundesrepublik und die DDR aus.
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Comrades of Color
In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.
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The unknown Eastern Front : the Wehrmacht and Hitler's foreign soldiers
\"When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German. Hitler's declaration of the 'struggle against Bolshevism' reverberated throughout all of Europe - among convinced fascists as well as among non-Russian eastern Europeans seeking to regain their independence from the USSR. Many of these volunteers subsequently became involved in the atrocities of the Wehrmacht and the SS. Vilified by Hitler for their supposed failures, condemned and forgotten by their homelands for treason and collaboration, their involvement in the war has been largely ignored or swept aside by historians. Rolf-Dieter Muller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.\"--Publisher's website.
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Germany and the Baltic Problem After the Cold War
The root question this book addresses is how the new Germany will use its re-found status as a great power. Does Germany - as in the past - aim to dominate Europe? Or has it renounced its imperial ambitions following the trauma of division during the Cold War? In seeking answers to these questions, Kristina Spohr Readman scrutinises the development of Germany's new Ostpolitik (eastern policy) in the period 1989-2000. Against the background of recent European history, she analyses the re-establishment of a special relationship between Bonn/Berlin and Moscow. In particular, she assesses the peculiar geopolitical situation of the Baltic states: caught between a turbulent Russia in the east and a unified Germany in the west. The Baltic case reveals the complexities of a post-Cold War European security architecture in the making.
Kristina Spohr is Junior Research Fellow at Christs' College Cambridge, where she also teaches twentieth century European history. She has published several articles on German unification and NATO's eastern enlargement.
1. Germany and the Baltics in the Cold War Endgame, 1989-1991 2. German Questions Past and Present 3. Unified Germany's West(europa)politik in a 'Time Which As Yet Has No Name' 4. Germany and Russia Reborn: Back to the future? 5. The Baltic States: A gauge of Germany's new Ostpolitik and European security 6. Conclusion
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Legacies of Stalingrad : remembering the Eastern Front in Germany since 1945
\"Christina Morina's book examines the history of the Eastern Front war and its impact on German politics and society throughout the postwar period. She argues that the memory of the Eastern Front war was one of the most crucial and contested themes in each part of the divided Germany. Although the Holocaust gained the most prominent position in West German memory, official memory in East Germany centered on the war against the USSR. The book analyzes the ways in which these memories emerged in postwar German political culture during and after the Cold War, and how views of these events played a role in contemporary political debates. The analysis pays close attention to the biographies of the protagonists both during the war and after, drawing distinctions between the accepted, public memory of events and individual encounters with the war\"--Provided by publisher.
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Death in East Germany, 1945-1990 (Monographs in German history, volume 35)
As the first historical study of East Germany's sepulchral
culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death
since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas
of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking
industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such
as issues of design, spatial layout, and commemorative practices;
the propagation of cremation as a means of disposal; the
wide-spread introduction of anonymous communal areas for the
internment of urns; and the emergence of socialist and secular
funeral rituals. The author analyses the manifold changes to the
system of the disposal of the dead in East Germany-a society that
not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also
urbanization, secularization, a communist regime, and a planned
economy. Stressing a comparative approach, the book reveals
surprising similarities to the development of Western countries but
also highlights the intricate local variations within the GDR and
sheds more light on the East German state and its society.
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