Berlin’s Other Anniversary
The fall of the Berlin Wall was as much about beginnings as it was about endings. Out of the rubble came a new hope: techno music.
Germany
Day of Dissent in the DDR
The East German Uprising of 1953 was the first major revolt to take place in the Soviet Bloc.
Postwar Germany and the legacy of Nazism
How did Germany’s postwar politicians deal with the legacy of Nazism and defeat?
Telling Trabbies from Junkers
Though fast-faced and refreshingly different, this short study of Germany is more political manifesto than historical analysis.
New Avenues of Germany’s Past
As Holocaust survivors die, new approaches are required to tell their history, as shown in this unsentimental, emphatic account of the inhabitants of a Berlin street.
The Limits of Nationhood
In the interwar period, France and Germany worked towards an integrated Europe.
Henry IV of Germany: a ‘Bad King’?
Looking beyond the usual rogues’ gallery of historical figures can help us to better understand the past.
The Media’s First Moral Panic
Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, was blamed for a spate of suicides during the ‘reading fever’ of the 1700s. It set a trend for manufactured outrage that is with us still.
German Intellectual History
Peter Schröder highlights key publications on Germany’s contribution to the history of ideas from the Enlightenment to the present day.
The Weimar Republic: A Failed State?
The archetypal image of the Weimar Republic is one of political instability, economic crisis and debauched hedonism. The cliché is being challenged.