TY - BOOK AU - Biess,Frank AU - Connor,Ian AU - Fehrenbach,Heide AU - Fischer,Conan AU - Gross,Michael B. AU - Herzog,Dagmar AU - Moeller,Robert G. AU - Mommsen,Hans AU - Nolan,Mary AU - Nützenadel,Alexander AU - Poiger,Uta G. AU - Roseman,Mark AU - Ruff,Mark Edward AU - Röhl,John C.G. AU - Schissler,Hanna AU - Strandmann,Hartmut Pogge von AU - Swett,Pamela E. AU - Wiesen,S.Jonathan TI - Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity: Essays on Modern German History SN - 9781789203721 AV - DD232 .C664 2007 U1 - 943.08 23 PY - 2007///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - HISTORY / Europe / Germany KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part 1 German Elites and an Unruly Society --; 1 Kulturkampf and Geschlechterkampf: Anti-Catholicism, Catholic Women, and Public Space --; 2 The 1923 Ruhr Crisis The Limits of Active Resistance --; 3 Political Violence, Gesinnung, and the Courts in Late Weimar Berlin --; Part 2 German Society and a Violent Regime --; 4 Beyond Conviction? Perpetrators, Ideas and Action in the Holocaust in Historiographical Perspective --; 5 The Dissolution of the Third Reich --; 6 The Search for Missing Soldiers MIAs, POWs, and Ordinary Germans, 1943–45 --; Part 3 Change and Continuity in Germany’s Foreign Relations --; 7 The Kaiser and His English Relations Revisited --; 8 Appeasement and Counter-Appeasement Nazi-Soviet Collaboration 1939–1941 --; 9 Imperialism as a Paradigm for Modern German History --; 10 Americanization as a Paradigm of German History --; Part 4 Smooth Surfaces, Murky Depths: The Social and Cultural History of the Federal Republic --; 11 The Radicalization that Never Was? Refugees in the German Federal Republic --; 12 Germany’s Special Path? Economic Sciences and Politics in the Federal Republic, 1945–1970 --; 13 Catholic Elites, Gender, and Unintended Consequences in the 1950s --; 14 Memory,Morality, and the Sexual Liberalization ofWest Germany --; 15 The Modern Guild --; 16 Fighting to Win the Peace --; 17 Rehabilitating Fatherland --; 18 Epilogue: Zeitgenossenschaft: Some Reflections on Doing Contemporary German History --; Selected Readings --; Contributors; restricted access N2 - Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany alongside innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany’s descent into, and emergence from, the Nazi catastrophe. It explores the intersections between society, economy, and international policy, with a particular interest in the relations between elites and the wider society, and provides new insights into the complex continuities and discontinuities of modern German history. This volume offers a rich selection of essays that contribute to our understanding of the road to war, Nazism, and the Holocaust, as well as Germany’s transformation after 1945 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203721?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789203721 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789203721/original ER -