The German myth of the East
Subtitle: 1800 to the present
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780199546312
Subjects: Public opinion -- Germany -- History; National characteristics, German; Germany -- Relations -- Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Germany; Europe, Eastern -- Foreign public opinion, German -- History
Description: Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined (often in very different ways) a special German mission in the East, forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.