Rewriting German History: New Perspectives on Modern Germany

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Crossing the North Sea — is there a British Approach to German History?....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Cologne Cathedral as an International Monument....Pages 29-51
Germany’s Boundaries and the Politics of Defeat: Heligoland, 1918–1933....Pages 52-67
Cosmopolitan Highlanders: Region and Nation in Anglo-German Encounters in the Himalayas, 1903–1945....Pages 68-81
The ‘Cleansing’ of Culture in Germany’s Lost East after the Second World War....Pages 82-99
Traitors, Heroes, Martyrs, Victims? Veterans of Nazi ‘Forced Conscription’ from Alsace and Moselle....Pages 100-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe....Pages 121-141
Finding the Female Self: Women’s Autonomy, Marriage and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Germany....Pages 142-157
Beasts in Human Clothing? Pimps, Moral Panics and the German Underworld....Pages 158-176
Myth-making in Hitler’s Shadow: The Transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945....Pages 177-194
East German Perspectives on Continuity and Change across the Caesura of 1989....Pages 195-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Justifying Genocide in Weimar Germany: The Armenian Genocide, German Nationalists and Assassinated Young Turks, 1919–1923....Pages 215-232
Interwar Britain and German Racial Theory....Pages 233-246
The Cultivation of Mussolini’s Image in Weimar and Nazi Germany....Pages 247-266
Dictators for Sale: The Commercialization of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany....Pages 267-287
Veiled Survivors: Jews, Roma and Muslims in the Years of the Holocaust....Pages 288-305
The Nazi Concentration Camps in International Context: Comparisons and Connections....Pages 306-325
Back Matter....Pages 326-336