Rewriting German History

New Perspectives on Modern Germany

Edited by Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann

Print Pub Date:: October 2015
Online Date:: September 2015

History Collection 2015

Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century. Subjects covered include the peculiarities of Nazi Germany, the comparison between Hitler and Mussolini, eugenics and racial theory, genocide and defeat, memory and heroism, prostitution and women's rights, the Anglo-German relationship and the politics of culture in modern Germany.

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Editors' Preface; Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann
1. Crossing the North Sea – is there a British Approach to German History?; Geoff Eley
PART I: THE LOCAL NATION
2. Cologne Cathedral as an International Monument; Astrid Swenson
3. Germany's Boundaries and the Politics of Defeat: Heligoland, 1918-1933; Jan Rüger
4. Cosmopolitan Highlanders: Region and Nation in Anglo-German Encounters in the Himalayas, 1903-1945; Tom Neuhaus
5. The 'Cleansing' of Culture in Germany's Lost East after the Second World War; Hugo Service
6. Traitors, Heroes, Martyrs, Victims? Veterans of Nazi 'Forced Conscription' from Alsace and Moselle; Elizabeth Vlossak
PART II: CULTURE AND SOCIETY
7. The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Rachel G. Hoffman
8. Finding the Female Self: Women's Autonomy, Marriage, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg; Lynn Abrams
9. Beasts in Human Clothing? Pimps, Moral Panics, and the German Underworld; Victoria Harris
10. Myth-making in Hitler's Shadow: The Transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945; Bernhard Fulda
11. East German Perspectives on Continuity and Change across the Caesura of 1989; Hester Vaizey
PART III: THE PECULIARITIES OF NAZI GERMANY
12. Justifying Genocide in Weimar Germany: The Armenian Genocide, German Nationalists, and Assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923; Stefan Ihrig
13. Interwar Britain and German Racial Theory; Bradley W. Hart
14. The Cultivation of Mussolini's Image in Weimar and Nazi Germany; Christian Goeschel
15. Dictators for Sale: The Commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany; Bianca Gaudenzi
16. Veiled Survivors: Jews, Roma and Muslims in the Years of the Holocaust; David Motadel
17. The Nazi Concentration Camps in International Context: Comparisons and Connections; Nikolaus Wachsmann

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Harvard: Edited by Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann . (October 2015). Rewriting German History . [Online] Available at: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137347794. (Accessed: 20 November 2016).
APA: Edited by Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann . (October 2015). Rewriting German History . Retrieved from http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137347794
MLA: Edited by Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann . Rewriting German History . (October 2015) Palgrave Macmillan. 20 November 2016.
Vancouver: Edited by Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann . Rewriting German History [internet]. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; October 2015. [cited 2016 November 20]. Available from: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137347794
OSCOLA: Edited by Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann , Rewriting German History , Palgrave Macmillan October 2015

Infomation about the author(s)

Jan Rüger is Reader in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He has held visiting fellowships at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and the Humanities Research Center at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire (2007).

Nikolaus Wachsmann is Professor of Modern European History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and has written widely on deviance, discipline and terror in modern Germany. Most recently, he has published KL. A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (2015). He is also the author of the prize winning Hitler's Prisons and co-editor of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories.

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