Tag: The Political Book
Anti-Semitism after 1945: How Jewish religious buildings were removed with a pickaxe – Politics
In times in which hatred of Jews is rampant and the number of anti-Semitic crimes is increasing dramatically, this book, which is definitely worth reading, is becoming even more topical,…
Hunger for democracy and stubbornness: Great analysis of German citizens – politics
The citizen-driven initiatives that emerged in the GDR in the fall of 1989 were called “Aufbruch 90”, “Knowledge for the People” movement or “Forum for Direct Democracy”. They produced mass…
Nationalism, sexism, autocracy: Sabine Fischer on Putin’s politics – Politics
Sabine Fischer interprets Putin’s politics as chauvinistic rule, where the law of the strongest dominates. And she explains how Europe could avoid another cycle of patriarchal violence. It takes courage…
NATO Eastern Expansion: New Book with the Historical Evidence – Politics
In her book, historian Mary E. Sarotte presents the “true history of NATO’s eastward expansion.” A conversation about the motives of politicians in 1990, the strange role of Hans-Dietrich Genscher…
A Prussian in the Resistance: Biography of Fabian von Schlabrendorff. – Politics
Fabian von Schlabrendorff is one of the few survivors of the conservative military resistance against Hitler. About a month after Assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 arrested, an Allied bombing…
The Oradour massacre and why it was never atoned for. – Politics
The massacre that German soldiers caused in 1944 in Oradour, France, has remained unpunished in the Federal Republic to this day. Andrea Erkenbrecher has meticulously researched why politics and the…
State or Market? A debate about privatizations. Review – Politics
Good idea that the small Westend publishing house had: to establish a book series called “Streitfrage” in the rowdy, easily excitable German present. Unlike on Twitter, where people like to…
Quite comfortable dictatorship: A “new history of the GDR”? Unfortunately not! – Politics
Review by Norbert F. Pötzl A book that promises “a new history of the GDR” in the subtitle arouses expectations. What arouses curiosity is that the author was a historian…
Was the Hitler putsch also Hitler’s putsch? Two new books on the subject. – Politics
November 9th plays an important role in the German culture of remembrance: as the day on which the last German emperor abdicated and the beginning of the first German democracy…
Modernity as a time of crisis: A brilliant handbook on the Weimar Republic. – Politics
Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann have put together an excellent handbook that takes a broad look at the first German democracy between 1918 and 1933. This is more effective than…