Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic. By Andrew I. Port. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xvii+303. Cloth $75.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86651-4.

The rise of neo-Nazism in the capital of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not inspired by a desire to recreate Hitler's Reich, but by youthful rebellion against the political and social culture of the GDR's Communist regime. This is detailed in Fuehrer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Naxi by Ingo Hasselbach with Tom Reiss (Random House, New York, 1996). This movement, however, eventually worked towards returning Germany to its former 'glory' under the Third Reich under the guidance of 'professional' Nazis.

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Everyday Communism: New Social History of the German Democratic Republic

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777304001699 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 233-247 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

SANDRINE KOTT

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North Carolina ◽

Cultural History ◽

Social History ◽

German Democratic Republic ◽

Democratic Republic ◽

Daily Life ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of ◽

East German

Konrad Jarausch, ed., Dictatorship as Experience. Toward a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999), 388 pp., £14.00 (pb), ISBN 1-57181-182-6.Thomas Lindenberger, ed., Herrschaft und Eigensinn in der Diktatur (Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999) 367 pp., €39.90 (hb), ISBN 3-412-13598-4.Annegret Schüle, ‘Die Spinne’. Die Erfahrungsgeschichte weiblicher Industriearbeit im VEB Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001), 398 pp., €18.00 (pb), ISBN 3-934565-87-5.Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds., The Workers' and Peasants' State. Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945–71 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 272 pp., £15.99 (pb), ISBN 0-7190-6289-6.Joshua Feinstein, The Triumph of the Ordinary. Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema 1949–1989 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 331 pp., £19.50 (pb), ISBN 0-8078-5385-2.

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Book Reviews

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/gps.2008.260106 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 118-144

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Collective Memory ◽

Democratic Republic ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Princeton University ◽

Historical Responsibility ◽

Imperial Germany ◽

The Family ◽

The Welfare State

E.P. Hennock, The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Christopher S. AllenLars Fischer, The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Eric KurlanderDevin O. Pendas, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965. Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)Reviewed by Klaus L. BerghahnDonna Harsch, Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Elizabeth MittmanJeffrey K. Olick, The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (New York: Routledge, 2007)Reviewed by Cora Sol Goldstein

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