Wolfgang Mommsen was een Duitse historicus wiens werk zich richtte op de Britse en Duitse geschiedenis van de 19e en 20e eeuw. Zijn expertise omvatte diplomatieke, sociale, intellectuele en economische aspecten van de geschiedenis. Mommsen bepleitte een "speciaal pad"-interpretatie van de Duitse geschiedenis, en stelde dat Duitsland een gedeeltelijke modernisering kende die gepaard ging met economische, maar niet met politieke vooruitgang. Zijn vergelijkende studies tussen Groot-Brittannië en Duitsland onderzochten waarom Groot-Brittannië volgens hem zowel politieke als economische modernisering bereikte, terwijl Duitsland alleen dat laatste deed.
Part 1: ten essays survey the main groups of the Nazi regime, including Communists, socialists, Jews, Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses, the military, women, young people and emigres. Part 2: shorter articles on specific groups and eventsPart 3: 550 brief biographies of the main opponents of National Socialism mentioned in the first two parts
In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen's illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern industrial societies.
A concise history of the Holocaust, covering all the major topics and issues important to that history - the first to be written by a German (non-Jewish) scholar of the younger generation. The History of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jewish writers and historians. Wolfgang Benz's book makes an important contribution by bringing German perspectives to that terrible event. His goal is to provide and analyse all the incontrovertible facts and political decisions that led to the dehumanisation and systematic murder of millions of Jews and other ethnic minorities during the Nazi regime. He details the laws, the events, the individuals, and the decisions from 1933 to 1945. The book concludes with a discussion of what the German people really knew. A masterpiece of historical compression, this book is a powerful introduction to the history of the Holocaust.
This is an authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich from its political takeover of January 30, 1939 to the German capitulation in May 1945.
Essays comparison of the history of labour movements, trade unionism and labour relations in Germany and the UK, 1880-1914 - considers social conflictthrough strikes, impact of the division of labour on trade unionization and trade union membership, political participation of the working class through socialist political partys, management attitude and government attitude towards workers rights and freedom of association, repressive legislations. List of participants. Graphs, references, statistical tables
In den letzten Jahren hat sich gezeigt, dass der Antisemitismus zu einem ernst zu nehmenden Problem in den Zuwanderergesellschaften Europas geworden ist. Vor allem muslimische Jugendliche projizieren ihren Hass gegenüber Israel auf die in den europäischen Ländern lebenden Juden. Antisemitische Stereotype und Propaganda aus den arabischen Ländern finden via Satellitenfernsehen und über radikale Islamisten Eingang in die Gedankenwelt der Migranten. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Expertinnen und Experten aus Deutschland, Großbritannien, den Niederlanden und Schweden beleuchten in diesem Band sowohl historische als auch aktuelle Hintergründe dieses Phänomens.
Planning and building under the National Socialists pervaded all areas of life between 1933 and 1945 and were inseparably linked to the regime’s totalitarian practices – both in the German Reich and in the European territories it occupied. The members of the Independent Commission of Historians – Wolfgang Benz, Tilman Harlander, Elke Pahl-Weber, Wolfram Pyta, Adelheid von Saldern, Wolfgang Schäche and Regina Stephan – were tasked by what is now the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building with the research project “Planning and Building under the National Socialists: Prerequisities, Institutions, Impacts”. The research findings are presented in their essays, each of which draws on contemporary photographs and plans with accompanying commentary to amplify seven areas of focus: Housing and Settlements; Party and State Architecture; Camps in the National Socialist Era; Infrastructure and Spatial Planning; Internationality; Continuities in Urban Planning and Architecture in the East and West after 1945; The Building Legacies of National Socialism. Included in the book are biographies of fifty architects, landscape designers, construction specialists and civil servants.
Concentrating on Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts, Mommsen offers a critical analysis of Weber's notion of democracy, distinguishing its liberal and elitist features.