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Bringing together incisive contributions from an international
group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in
Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German
history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of
Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections on the
discipline’s theoretical, professional, and methodological
dimensions, it explores Jarausch’s monumental work as a teacher
and a builder of scholarly institutions. In this way, it provides
not merely a look back at the last fifty years of German history,
but a path forward as new ideas and methods infuse the study of
Germany’s past.
Historians know a great deal about how wars begin, but far less
about how they end. Whilst much has been written about the forces,
passions, and institutions that mobilized societies for war and
worked to sustain that mobilization through years of struggle, much
less is known about the equally complex processes that demobilized
societies in the wake of armed conflict. As such, this new book
will be welcomed by scholars wishing to understand the effects of
the Great War in its fullest context, including the reactions,
behaviors, and attitudes of 'ordinary' Europeans during the
tumultuous events of the years of demobilization. Taking a
transnational perspective on demobilization this study demonstrates
that the experience of mass industrial war generated remarkably
similar pressures within both the defeated and victorious
countries. Using as examples the important provincial centres of
Munich and Manchester, this book examines the experiences of
European urban-dwellers from the last year of the war until the
early 1920s. Utilizing a wide variety of sources from more than
twenty archives in Germany, Britain, and the United States, this
book recovers voices from the period that are often lost in
conventional narratives, capturing the richness and diversity of
the ideas, visions, and conflicts engendered by those difficult and
tumultuous years. The result is a book that paints a vivid picture
of the difficulties that peace could bring to economies and
societies that had rapidly and fully adapted to the demands of
industrial world war.
Historians know a great deal about how wars begin, but far less
about how they end. Whilst much has been written about the forces,
passions, and institutions that mobilized societies for war and
worked to sustain that mobilization through years of struggle, much
less is known about the equally complex processes that demobilized
societies in the wake of armed conflict. As such, this new book
will be welcomed by scholars wishing to understand the effects of
the Great War in its fullest context, including the reactions,
behaviors, and attitudes of 'ordinary' Europeans during the
tumultuous events of the years of demobilization. Taking a
transnational perspective on demobilization this study demonstrates
that the experience of mass industrial war generated remarkably
similar pressures within both the defeated and victorious
countries. Using as examples the important provincial centres of
Munich and Manchester, this book examines the experiences of
European urban-dwellers from the last year of the war until the
early 1920s. Utilizing a wide variety of sources from more than
twenty archives in Germany, Britain, and the United States, this
book recovers voices from the period that are often lost in
conventional narratives, capturing the richness and diversity of
the ideas, visions, and conflicts engendered by those difficult and
tumultuous years. The result is a book that paints a vivid picture
of the difficulties that peace could bring to economies and
societies that had rapidly and fully adapted to the demands of
industrial world war.
In 1936, the Nazi state created a massive military training site
near Wildflecken, a tiny community in rural Bavaria. During the
war, this base housed an industrial facility that drew forced
laborers from all over conquered Europe. At war s end, the base
became Europe s largest Displaced Persons camp, housing thousands
of Polish refugees and German civilians fleeing Eastern Europe. As
the Cold War intensified, the US Army occupied the base, removed
the remaining refugees, and stayed until 1994. Strangers in the
Wild Place tells the story of these tumultuous years through the
eyes of these very different groups, who were forced to find ways
to live together and form a functional society out of the ruins of
Hitler s Reich."
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