Shattered past
Subtitle: reconstructing German histories
By: Konrad H. Jarausch and Michael Geyer.
Contributors: Geyer, Michael.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Historiography -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; History -- Philosophy.; Nationalism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.; Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Description: Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.