Archiv für Februar 2016

West Germany and the Portuguese dictatorship: Between Cold War and Colonialism

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/182?rss=1

Diplomatie mit Gefühl: Vertrauen, Misstrauen und die Aussenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/178?rss=1

Küche, Kühlschrank, Kilowatt. Zur Geschichte des privaten Energiekonsums in Deutschland, 1945-1990

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/180?rss=1

Helmut Kohls Quest for Normality: His Representation of the German Nation and Himself

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/188?rss=1

Völkerfreundschaft nach Bedarf: Ausländische Arbeitskräfte in der Wahrnehmung von Staat und Bevölkerung der DDR

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/184?rss=1

Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/186?rss=1

Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums and the German-Danish Borderlands

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/152?rss=1

Urban Order and Urban Other: Anti-Waldensian Inquisition in Augsburg, 1393

This article analyses the new meaning persecutions of heretics acquired in later medieval towns during the 1390s, as German free and imperial cities struggled for a greater political autonomy. During the last decade of the fourteenth century, Waldensi…

Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/1/151?rss=1

The Volksgemeinschaft and the Problems of Permeability: The Persistence of Traditional Attitudes in Württemberg Villages

Some historians are intent on implicating all Germans in the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust. This has come to be seen within a new definition of what the Volksgemeinschaft was. The Volksgemeinschaft has long been the subject of scholarly debate. More recently, Michael Wildt has argued that antisemitism was what bound members of the Volk together in a racist community. His impressive evidence does not, however, sustain his argument that all members of the Volk were ‘self-empowered’ by their participation or complicity in antisemitic violence. Evidence from rural Württemberg contradicts his assertions to this effect and presents a more variegated picture of the potentialities for antisemitic violence in smaller communities. The absence of Jews from the overwhelming majority of small communities in Württemberg in the 1930s, and the absence or ineffectiveness of Nazi organizations in these same communities, mean that the two critical conditions for antisemitic violence were missing from most of Württemberg’s rural communes. It is possible that the same may be said for rural communities in some other parts of Germany, including southern Bavaria. Sweeping assertions about antisemitic violence characterizing and shaping society in smaller communities are therefore unhelpful. Extrapolation to nationwide dimensions from a number of well-researched local cases does not provide evidence for Wildt’s all-encompassing argument.