Five Germanys I Have Known A History and Memoir

Name: Five Germanys I Have Known A History and Memoir
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ISBN: 9780374530860

ISBN-10: 0374530866

ISBN-13: 9780374530860

Edition: 2007

Authors: Fritz Stern

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The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past. Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West and East Germanys, and the unified country after 1990. Through his engagement with the nation from…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 7/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.27" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Maps


Introduction



Ancestral Germany



Weimar



The Third Reich



The Terror from Afar



When There Was No Germany



The Federal Republic: New Beginnings



The Fourth and Forgotten Germany



German Themes in Foreign Lands



The German Question Revisited



Unified Germany: A Second Chance?


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Index