Christian Graf Krockow

The Germans in their century

1890-1990

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why did Bismarck's new German State Degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich? What happened to Europes leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach? How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945? In this unique and controversial study the author - Prussian aristocrat, writer, scholar, historian and patriot - fearlessly explores German social mores, political structures and national psyche over several centuries. V. Krockow draws some sobering and novel conclusions about the unfolding drama in general and the Holocaust in particular. First published in 1990 to coincide with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German edition sold widely. This first translation now makes it available to English-speaking readers worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 695g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080869
• ISBN-10: 071908086X
• Artikelnr.: 27428332

Autorenporträt

Christian Graf von Krockow (1927 - 2002) was a German writer and political scientist. Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Reicke Schweitzer lives with his wife, Louise, in Brighton

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps Introduction by Professor Dr. Konrad Jarausch Preface PART I
WILHELMIAN PRELUDE 1890-1914 1. About peace and progress 2. A society
without self-confidence 3. Ship without a rudder PART II THE GERMAN DRAMA,
1914-45 4. War 5. The November republic 6. The decision 7. Life in the
Third Reich 8. The ultimate crime for the ultimate delusion PART III THE
GERMANS SINCE 1945 9. The return of the citizen 10. A new start and fresh
anxieties 11. An end, a beginning - the Germans 1989-90 Epilogue: Germany -
a Drama of tragedy enacted on the European stage of reason Translator's
postscript Index of Names