scholarly journals Reordering the material of the past: gender and the morality of things in early postwar Germany

Clio ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Postwar Germany ◽  
The Past

The Afterlife of a Tribunal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Orentlicher
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
German Society ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
The Past ◽  
Operational Life ◽  
Local Impact

The span of an international tribunal’s local impact is not the same as its operational life, as Germany’s evolved relationship with Nuremberg highlights. Recognizing that the ICTY’s impact in Bosnia and Serbia will continue to evolve after the Tribunal ends its work, this chapter considers the Tribunal’s future impact, focusing in particular on its potential to stimulate a future reckoning with Serbia’s wartime past. While recognizing myriad differences between post-Milošević Serbia and postwar Germany, this chapter explores factors behind the latter’s eventual emergence as a “model penitent” long after German society rejected the moral message the Allies hoped Nuremberg would impart. It suggests that, after an extended period of “transitional denial,” Nuremberg may have contributed to Germany’s far-reaching reckoning with the past through a process of delayed norm diffusion.

The Politics of Memory: Rededicating Two Historical Monuments in Postwar Germany

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-280
Author(s):  
Sam A. Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
Coffee Table

For much of the past two centuries German governments encouraged or even sponsored the construction of war monuments. By the turn of the twentieth century Germany was covered in more than a thousand such shrines, most of which had local or regional significance as places of annual celebration or commemoration. Government, media, and business all contributed to an elaborate hagiography of Germany's battles, war heroes, and martyrs, with monuments usually serving as the centerpieces. Millions of middle-class Germans attended or participated in commemoration ceremonies at war monuments all over the country, and/or filled their homes with souvenir trinkets, tableware, wall decorations, coffee-table books, and other quotidian items that reproduced images of the monuments or scenes from the events they memorialized.

Urban history atlases: A survey of recent publications

Urban History ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 66-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lempi Borg Wik ◽  
Thomas Hall
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Central City ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
The Past ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Major Trend ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
Moyen Age

A major trend in European urban history research, during the past few decades, has been the increasing attention given to town plans and topographical conditions. Even in the 1930s, little attention was paid to the physical aspects of urban development, and it was not uncommon for town plans to be totally absent from works on urban history. A turning point was reached in two classical studies, viz. Fernand Vercauteren, Etudes sur les civitates de la Belgique seconde (1934) and F. L. Ganshof, Etude sur le développement des villes entre Loire et Rhin au Moyen Age (1943). The Stadtkernforschung begun in postwar Germany, when bomb damage enabled archaeological investigations of central city areas to be carried out on an entirely different scale than had been previously possible, was also of great importance for continued development.

scholarly journals Book Review: Marcel Thomas, Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Ira
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Divided Germany ◽  
Oxford University Press

Book Review: Marcel Thomas, Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided GermanyThe article is a presentation of the newest book of Marcel Thomas. It is devoted to the question of how villagers in the postwar Germany use the past to construct their own interpretations of the social change. Recenze knihy: Marcel Thomas, Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020Článek představuje novou knihu Marcela Thomase. Kniha se věnuje se otázce, jak vesničané v poválečném Německu využívají minulost ke konstrukci vlastních interpretací společenské změny.Marcel Thomas, Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.Artykuł jest prezentacją najnowszej książki Marcela Thomasa, która jest poświęcona kwestii wykorzystania przeszłości w procesie konstruowa­nia własnych interpretacji procesów zmiany społecznej w powojennych Niemczech.

From Worst to First

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lange
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
World War ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter examines a paradox in the connection between modernity and ethnic violence: the earliest and most successful modernizers experienced severe ethnic violence prior to World War II, yet cases of ethnic violence have been relatively rare among early modernizers over the past seven decades. It begins with a comparison of Nazi and postwar Germany to show how the country transformed from extreme ethnic violence—and more specifically genocide—to relative peace. To further elucidate the causes of relative peace in early modernizers, the chapter considers the conflict resulting from the Quebec nationalist movement, which gained strength beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on the German and Canadian experiences, it discusses a variety of factors that limited ethnic violence after World War II by shaping the strength and contours of ethnicity, reducing emotional motivation, limiting ethnic obligations, and minimizing the opportunity for mass violence.

On How Postwar Germany Has Faced Its Recent Past

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 364-377
Author(s):  
Jürgen Habermas
Keyword(s):  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
New Right ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
The Past ◽  
German States ◽  
German Nation ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come ◽  
The 1960S

In this essay Habermas contends that, until 1989, four phases are discernible in how postwar Germany attempted to come to terms with its “unmasterable past.” Between the end of the war in 1945 and the foundation of two German states in 1949, the first reconstruction generation mythologized the Nazi period as a criminal abyss. If this strategy allowed the government of the Federal Republic to assume legal responsibility for reparation claims, it also served to release individuals from working through their own painful pasts. This stage yielded to a second phase, one of “communicative silencing,” during the Adenauer years from 1949-63 in which the second reconstruction generation chose not to speak of the past but rather to concentrate on building the Wirtschaftswunder. The student movement of the 1960s challenged this presentism with demands for disclosure and accountability, and from the mid-1970s until 1989 this quest for unmasking existed in tension with an ongoing desire for evasion. This tension drove the “Historians’ Debate” of those years. Since reunification in 1989, Germany’s attitude toward its past has remained ambivalent. Today a New Right calls for the self-confident reassertion of a German nation unburdened by its past. But the past will lose its hold over Germany, Habermas argues, only through the work of a truly faithful memory.

Student Comment—Germany's Commitment to the Sozialstaat Through Film

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1983-2003
Author(s):  
Chaz Klaes
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
German Word ◽  
The Past ◽  
Uniform Approach ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
Student Comment ◽  
Insight Into

Trümmerfilme (“rubble films”) provide a first-hand, although cinematographic, view of postwar Germany. They depict the myriad of postwar living conditions and day-to-day problems. The German word Vergangenheitsbewältigung means “the process of dealing with the past.” This term captures the film directors' respective approaches to depicting the past as a process rather than a single act. The Trümmerfilme are essential for anyone studying the postwar period. Although the films do not provide a complete or uniform approach, they provide numerous insights into the predominant problems faced by Germans during the immediate postwar period. Through the depiction of these social conditions, the films provide insight into the origin of the Basic Law's commitment to the Sozialstaat.

Observations of the continuum near the galactic centre

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Continuum

A continuum survey of the galactic-centre region has been carried out at Parkes at 20 cm wavelength over the areal11= 355° to 5°,b11= -3° to +3° (Kerr and Sinclair 1966, 1967). This is a larger region than has been covered in such surveys in the past. The observations were done as declination scans.

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