German Writings Before and After 1945

German Writings Before and After 1945
Author: Ernst Jünger
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780826414052

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This collection is one of the most significant in The German Library. It includes portions of Ernst Junger's The First Paris Diaries and The Second Paris Diaries; a part of Mars in Aries by Alexander Lernet-Holenia; a selection from The Questionnaire by Ernst von Salomon; a portion from After Midnight by Irmgard Keun; a selection from Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome; Scenes from the Life of a Faun by Arno Schmidt; and "Lowinger's Rooming House" by Gregor von Rezzori. The book is introduced and edited by Jurgen Peters, and includes biographical sketches of the authors.

German Writings Before and After 1945

German Writings Before and After 1945
Author: Ernst Jünger
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

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This collection is one of the most significant in The German Library. It includes portions of Ernst Junger's The First Paris Diaries and The Second Paris Diaries; a part of Mars in Aries by Alexander Lernet-Holenia; a selection from The Questionnaire by Ernst von Salomon; a portion from After Midnight by Irmgard Keun; a selection from Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome; Scenes from the Life of a Faun by Arno Schmidt; and "Lowinger's Rooming House" by Gregor von Rezzori. The book is introduced and edited by Jurgen Peters, and includes biographical sketches of the authors.

German Writing Since 1945

German Writing Since 1945
Author: Lowell A. Bangerter
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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Losing Heaven

Losing Heaven
Author: Thomas Großbölting
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785332791

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As the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity. Today, however, its religious landscape is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society: congregations shrink, private piety is on the wane, and public life has almost entirely shed its Christian character, yet there remains a booming market for syncretistic and individualistic forms of “popular religion.” Losing Heaven insightfully recounts these dramatic shifts and explains their consequences for German religious communities and the polity as a whole.

A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945
Author: Michael Brenner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2018-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253029295

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A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust. Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st Century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate postwar period with a large concentration of Eastern European Holocaust survivors stranded in Germany, the book follows Jews during the relative quiet period of the 50s and early 60s during which the foundations of new Jewish life were laid. Brenner’s volume goes on to address the rise of anti-Israel sentiments after the Six Day War as well as the beginnings of a critical confrontation with Germany’s Nazi past in the late 60s and early 70s, noting the relatively small numbers of Jews living in Germany up to the 90s. The contributors argue that these Jews were a powerful symbolic presence in German society and sent a meaningful signal to the rest of the world that Jewish life was possible again in Germany after the Holocaust. “This volume, which illuminates a multi-faceted panorama of Jewish life after 1945, will remain the authoritative reading on the subject for the time to come.” —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “An eminently readable work of history that addresses an important gap in the scholarship and will appeal to specialists and interested lay readers alike.” —Reading Religion “Comprehensive, meticulously researched, and beautifully translated.” —CHOICE

German Writing Since 1945

German Writing Since 1945
Author: Lowell A. Bangerter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1988
Genre:
ISBN:

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Coming Home to Germany?

Coming Home to Germany?
Author: David Rock
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571817181

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The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth century. Although unprecedented in its magnitude, conventional wisdom has it that the integration of refugees, expellees, and Aussiedler was a largely successful process in postwar Germany. While the achievements of the integration process are acknowledged, the volume also examines the difficulties encountered by ethnic Germans in the Federal Republic and analyses the shortcomings of dealing with this particular phenomenon of mass migration and its consequences.

The Course of German History

The Course of German History
Author: Alan John Percivale Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 231
Release: 1962
Genre: Germany
ISBN:

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In the Wake of War

In the Wake of War
Author: Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1993-06-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195361091

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In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen anew. The housing crisis had been overcome and virtually all important monuments reconstructed, and the cities had reclaimed their characteristic identities. Everywhere there was a mixture of old and new: historic churches and town halls stood alongside new housing and department stores; ancient street layouts were crossed or encircled by wide arteries; old city centers were balanced by garden suburbs laid out according to modern planning principles. In this book, Diefendorf examines the questions raised by this remarkable feat of urban reconstruction. He explains who was primarily responsible, what accounted for the speed of rebuilding, and how priorities were set and decisions acted upon. He argues that in such crucial areas as architectural style, urban planning, historic preservation, and housing policy, the Germans drew upon personnel, ideas, institutions, and practical experiences from the Nazi and pre-Nazi periods. Diefendorf shows how the rebuilding of West Germany's cities after 1945 can only be understood in terms of long-term continuities in urban development.