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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"German history"”.
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“Alles ist nur Wörter”: the critique of German history in Michael Stock’s Prinz in Hölleland
… in North America, yet the influence of German Queer Cinema on such movies was overlooked. Some critics made the connection between the two cinemas but never delved deeper into the possible influences that German film had on American directors. Why were the movies of Fassbinder, von …
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Das Schmunzeln im Spiegel (kolonialer) Erinnerung:parodierte nationale Selbstbilder in Christian Krachts Imperium und Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt
… novel Measuring the World explore facets of German identity against the backdrop of aspects of German colonial history. In my thesis, I argue that with their satirical representations of the German Self in the encounter with the (colonial) Other, the authors reflect critically on the …
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Memory and Destruction: A Psychiatric Approach to Understanding Literary Depictions of Air Raids in World War II
… the air raids have indeed been a topic of German literature and several narratives are discussed in the thesis (Nossack, Borchert, Ledig, Kluge, Kempowski, Forte). In addition, German-Jewish accounts of the bombings (Kemperer, Biermann), displaying the mixed view of them as both horror and …
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An American Ambassador in Berlin: Observing Hitler's Gambles in Foreign Policy, 1933-1937
… Dodd served as United States ambassador to Germany between August 1933 and December 1937. Using archival sources, this thesis examines Dodd's reactions to and analyses of three events in Nazi German history, with reference to how these episodes altered the landscape of international …
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Time, pain and myth in Ingeborg Bachmann's “Das Buch Franza” and Anne Duden's “Übergang”
… Das Buch Franza and Übergang engage with modern German history as part of a time construct, which fails to capture the silences. Historic accounts exclude certain voices and therefore contradict what constitutes collective memory. Chapter Two illustrates how traumatic memories resurface violently …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
This dissertation examines the history behind German companies' failure to attain the highest level of world rationalization, a rigorously Taylorized shop floor combined with a workforce willing to lend their practical expertise to management for the sake of modernizing production. From the end of …
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The Lost East: Silesian Expellees in West Germany and the Fantasy of Return, 1945--1970
"We open with an historical overview of German history in Silesia before the expulsion. Further background is then offered through exploring the official narrative of border revision devised by self-proclaimed expellee spokespeople who, after the founding of the Bonn Republic in May 1949, received …
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German high school history textbooks: how well do they deal with the rise and fall of the Third Reich?
Recent isolated anti-Jewish remarks by some West German politicians have rekindled debate about the possible revival of anti-Semitism in the new generation of West Germans. One can only wonder if German education has, as some critics like to put it, swept the Nazi period discreetly under the …
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The Origins of German Industrialization: The Transition to Capitalism in Prussian Agriculture
… dissertation seeks to explain the origins of German industrialization. Historical accounts of German industrialization often chronicle the process of its development but leave reasons for its initiation unexplained. Theories that have attempted to locate the roots of rapid German economic …
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Intimate strangers: intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants in Germany, 1875-1935
In this dissertation, I examine intermarriage in Germany from 1875, when the Second Reich implemented obligatory civil marriage, to 1935, the year the Third Reich implemented the Nuremberg Laws. At its core are common mixed marriages between Protestants and Catholics, as well as the relatively less …
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The Order of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul Motherhouse Freiburg, in the Archdiocese Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), 1846-1945
… the world followed in his footsteps, the echo in Germany was by far shorter. This study fills the gap for a specific German region by taking a specific order as a model. The Order of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul was historically and geographically not only the oldest and biggest …
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Solidarity and power in German : language as political action : a contribution to the socio-cultural history of the German language
Germany's latest attempt at unification raises again the question of German nationhood and nationality. The present study examines the links between the development of the German language and the political history of Germany, principally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining the …
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
This doctoral thesis investigates the history of modern Indian political thought in part through its significance for German fascism. It differs from other works on ‘global fascism’ in that it decentres ‘fascism’ as a concept but traces themes that emerge in its global context: the idea of ‘the …
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The difficulty in forging a bond: the inner workings of postmemory within family relationships in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel Meines Bruders
1989 marked a pivotal time in Germany’s history where the two German states and their respective histories needed to be reconciled and the memory of its citizens was called upon to be revisited as well. With a major political event, such as WWII in the German history, Germans were prompted to …
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German Identity in the Court Festivals of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Holy Roman Empire
… festivals within the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the period between the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and the coronation of Friedrich V, Elector Palatine, as King of Bohemia in 1619. The thesis is made up of five inter-related thematic chapters. Chapter I analyses the role of …
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Where Lies Germany: Science and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914
This dissertation examines the use of the quantitative sciences – particularly statistics and cartography – to bring order to the chaotic landscape of nationalities in central Europe across the long nineteenth century. It shows how numbers and maps were used to transform the abstract and …
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The lost East: Silesian expellees in West Germany and the fantasy of return, 1945-1970
One-fifth of the postwar West German population consisted of German refugees expelled from the former eastern territories and regions beyond. My dissertation examines how and why millions of expellees from the province of Silesia came to terms with the loss of their homeland. Revising the …
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The Federal Evolution of Imperial Germany (1871-1918)
… the evolution of federal government in the German Empire from the unification in 1871 to the collapse of the monarchy in 1918. The story of how the imperial federal state changed over the years has hitherto been hidden from view by disciplinary biases and methodological limitations. While …
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Deutsche Herrschaftsbildung im Fläming während des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts
Aus dem Vorwort: Der entstehende deutsche Staat hatte 928/29 mit der Unterwerfung der damals östlich von Elbe und Saale siedelnden Slawen begonnen. Den meisten Stämmen war es jedoch durch den Aufstand von 983 gelungen, nochmals ihre Freiheit zu erkämpfen. Im 12. Jahrhundert begann ein erneuter …
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