Shattered Past
Reconstructing German Histories
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Publication
2002-11-11 - Princeton University Press
Language
English
Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveshatteredpastrec00jara
- ISBN-100691059357
- ISBN-139780691059358
- Open LibraryOL9554519M
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.
First Sentence
The coincidence of political reunification with methodological shifts toward postmodernism raises the fundamental question: How should German history be told after the end of a century marked by its excesses?
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