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.

A History of Twentieth-Century Germany

History

Herbert, Ulrich

Europe

Oxford University Press

Combines socioeconomic labor market analysis with a cultural historical study of the impact of migration.

A History of Foreign Labor in Germany, 1880-1980: Seasonal Workers/Forced Laborers/Guest Workers (SOCIAL HISTORY, POPULAR CULTURE, AND POLITICS IN GERMANY)

Business & Money

Univ of Michigan Pr

This is an account of the most important instance of forced labor by foreign workers outside their own country in the twentieth century, when millions of workers from the USSR, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Italy and elsewhere toiled in the service of the Nazi regime. The workers are examined first from the viewpoint of the Nazi leadership, the entrepreneurs and the authorities, and second through the eyes of the workers themselves. It is the first major study of what in effect was slave labor on a massive scale, whose reverberations are still felt today in current debates about work compensation and the legacy of the Third Reich.

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Geschichte der Ausländerpolitik in Deutschland. Saisonarbeiter, Zwangsarbeiter, Gastarbeiter, Flüchtlinge.

C.H.Beck

Geschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert

Beck C. H.

Best: Biographische Studien über Radikalismus, Weltanschauung und Vernunft

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Combines socioeconomic labor market analysis with a cultural historical study of the impact of migration.

Geschichte der Ausländerpolitik in Deutschland: Saisonarbeiter, Zwangsarbeiter, Gastarbeiter, Flüchtlinge

Das Dritte Reich: Geschichte einer Diktatur

Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager.

Orth, Karin

Dieckmann, Christoph

Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt

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