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A History of Twentieth-Century Germany (Hardcover)
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A History of Twentieth-Century Germany (Hardcover)
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Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed
democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country
divided for 40 years after World War II. But it has also boasted a
strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization,
a successful democracy, and the longest period of peace in European
history. A History of Twentieth-Century Germany provides a survey
of German history during a century of extremes. Ulrich Herbert sees
German history in the 20th century as determined by two
contradictory perspectives. On one hand, there are the world wars
and great catastrophes that divide the country's history into two
parts-before and after 1945. Germany is the birthplace of radical
ideologies of the left and right and the only country in which each
ideology became the foundation of government. This pattern left its
stamp on both the first and second halves of the century. On the
other hand, the rise of modern industrial society led to decades of
conflict over the social and political order regardless of which
political system was in force. Considering these contradictory
developments, Herbert tackles the questions of both the collapse in
the first half of the century and the development from a
post-fascist, ruined society to one of the most stable liberal
democracies in the world in the latter half. Herbert's analysis
brings together wars and terror, utopia and politics, capitalism
and the welfare state, socialism and liberal democratic society,
gender and generations, culture and lifestyles, European
integration and globalization. The resulting book sets a standard
by which historians of the period will be measured in the future.
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