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Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.

»Soldaten der Arbeit« ist die erste Gesamtdarstellung des nationalsozialistischen Arbeitsdienstes für Männer, den zwischen 1933 und 1945 über drei Millionen Deutsche durchliefen. Das Buch stellt zudem in einem asymmetrischen Vergleich die NS-Organisation dem zeitgleich eingerichteten Arbeitsdienst der USA, dem Civilian Conservation Corps, gegenüber. In beiden Institutionen spiegeln sich die Antworten der deutschen Diktatur und der amerikanischen Demokratie auf die Weltwirtschaftskrise der Dreißiger Jahre in besonderem Maße wider. Die methodisch innovative Arbeit analysiert auch wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen und Transfers wie die Übernahme einiger Elemente der nationalsozialistischen Sozialpolitik durch die amerikanische Administration. Das Buch wurde von der Landeskonferenz der Rektoren und Präsidenten der Berliner Hochschulen mit dem Tiburtius-Anerkennungspreis 2003 und von der Auschwitz-Stiftung Brüssel mit dem »Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz« ausgezeichnet.

On the Road to Total War is a collection of essays that attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialized warfare (which terrorizes citizens and soliders alike). International scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects and on the societal impacts of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification. Mass mobilization of people and resources and growing nationalism led to this totalization of war in nineteenth-century industrialized nations.

One of the largest twentieth century summit meetings, the Genoa Conference of 1922, was also a notable failure, due to the gulf between the Allies and Germany, between the West and Soviet Russia, and among the World War I victors and their small allies. This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference: its leadership, goals, and outcome. The authors present new findings on such questions as the sensational Rapallo Treaty between Germany and Russia; the strategy of the small neutral powers; and the policy of the United States toward European debts. Readers will find contrasting as well as complementary views in this volume.

Using wartime records and postwar West German and Soviet investigative materials, this book probes the local dynamics of the German occupation and the collaboration in the Holocaust in southern Ukraine. Through the lens of a regional study, it contributes to recent scholarly interest in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.

This is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporating much new research. Individually, the essays probe the central questions of Jewish development within the territorial states, secular and clerical, and in both rural and urban environments. The authors grapple with such relevant issues as cultural identity, representation, toleration, and minority/majority relations.

Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake following the First World War, German policymakers vastly expanded social welfare programs to shore up women and families. Just over a decade later, the Nazis seized control of the state and created a radically different, racially driven gender and family policy. This book explores Weimar and Nazi policy to highlight the fundamental, far-reaching change wrought by the Nazis and the disparity between national family policy design and its implementation at the local level. Relying on a broad range of sources --including court records, sterilization files, church accounts, and women s oral histories -- it demonstrates how local officials balanced the benefits of marriage, divorce, and adoption against budgetary concerns, church influence, and their own personal beliefs. Throughout both eras individual Germans collaborated with, rebelled against, and evaded state mandates, in the process fundamentally altering the impact of national policy.

A systematic comparison between the Nazi Labor Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

The book delves into the complex history of German government records seized by American and British troops in 1945, which later played a crucial role in war crimes trials. It explores the West German government's efforts to reclaim these documents by 1949, symbolizing a key aspect of their emerging sovereignty. Through thorough research in multiple archives, it uncovers the significance of these files in shaping German historical narrative and the diplomatic negotiations surrounding their return, highlighting a critical yet often overlooked facet of early West German international relations.

How do migrants and refugees fashion group identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational study explores how religious nomads selectively engaged with nationalism to secure practical objectives and create local mythologies.

The study explores the interconnectedness of the transatlantic security system and the international monetary system throughout the Cold War. It examines how these two frameworks influenced each other, shaping global politics and economics during a pivotal historical period. The analysis provides insights into the strategic decisions made by nations and the implications for international relations, highlighting the complex interplay between security and economic stability.

A Past Renewed portrays the generation of German-speaking refugee historians who settled in the United States after fleeing Hitler's Europe. Bio-bibliographical entries on eighty-eight refugee historians document their scholarly contributions, historical interests, and impact on the American historical profession after 1945. Besides material on noted historians of modern Europe such as Felix Gilbert, Hajo Holborn, and Hans Rosenberg, the catalog includes information on many other historians influential in the fields of Jewish history, Renaissance history, the history of Roman and Canon Law, Chinese history, and the history of medicine. A Past Renewed provides a valuable reference work for scholars interested in the academic emigration from Nazi Germany, historiographical developments in the United States in the postwar era, the collective contribution of refugee historians to the American historical profession, and the lives and works of individual refugee historians.

In the borderland of Upper Silesia between 1848 and 1960, the local population resisted attempts by nationalist activists to compel them to become loyal Germans or Poles, a divide dictated by the two languages they spoke. This study of that resistance will appeal to scholars of European history and nationalism.

This study reframes Civil War-era history, arguing that the Franco-Prussian War contributed to a dramatic pivot in Northern commitment to African-American rights.

This book explores the influence of Hannah Arendt's and Leo Strauss' background in pre-World War II Germany on their perception of American democracy. The contributors analyze how their ^D'emigr^D'e experience both influenced their American work and also impacted on the formation of the discipline of political science in postwar Germany. Arendt's and Strauss' experiences thus aptly illustrate the transfer and transformation of political ideas in the World War II era.

Exploring the transformation of German cities, this book delves into their evolution from fortified walls to open spaces between 1689 and 1866. It examines the socio-political and architectural changes that accompanied this shift, highlighting the impact on urban life and the significance of defortification in shaping modern cityscapes. Through detailed analysis, it reveals how these metamorphoses reflect broader historical trends and the changing perceptions of security and community in urban environments.

Examines the impact on the scienctific world of the forced exodus of Jewish intellectuals from Nazi Germany.

Drawing on a diverse array of Turkish- and German-language sources, this book explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children in West Berlin from 1961 to the early years after reunification. Sarah Thomsen Vierra sheds new light on the relationship between belonging, identity, and... číst celé

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Hedwig-Hintze-Preis und dem Friedrich-Meinecke-Preis, behandelt die Studie die Rückgabeverhandlungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik und den Westalliierten über beschlagnahmtes deutsches Archivgut. Hunderte Tonnen an Schriftgut aus den Archiven der Reichsministerien, militärischen Stellen und Parteiorganisationen waren nach dem Krieg in alliierte Hände gefallen. Die Geschichte der Aktenrückgabe ist ein bisher vernachlässigtes Kapitel der politischen Emanzipation der Bundesrepublik. Diese Verhandlungen waren nicht nur ein weiteres Thema der jungen bundesdeutschen Außenpolitik, sondern symbolisierten auch den Versuch, verlorene Souveränität zurückzugewinnen. Zudem ist die Aktenrückgabe eine Auseinandersetzung um die Deutungsmacht deutscher Geschichte. Der temporäre Verlust der diplomatischen Akten für die (west)deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft und der ungehinderte Zugang für amerikanische und britische Historiker führten zu einem Streit um die legitimen Sprecher in der Deutung deutscher Geschichte. Die Studie beleuchtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Rückgabeverhandlungen und den Anfängen westdeutscher Zeitgeschichtsforschung und hebt insbesondere die transnationale Dimension der Diskussion hervor.

This volume of essays by German and American historians discusses key issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II.