scholarly journals From the Editors

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. vi
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Eastern Germany ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Methodological Approaches

This theme issue of German Politics and Society, “Eastern GermanyTen Years After Unification,” presents five key papers first presentedat a conference organized by Thomas Ertman at the Center for EuropeanStudies at Harvard University in June 1999. We are pleased topresent this reworked collection of articles that, under Ertman’s abledirection, speaks to the central concerns of the former East Germany’sintegration into the new Federal Republic. Ertman’s introductioncontextualizes these articles in terms of their thematic content andmethodological approaches.

The Wild, Wild East: Why the DVU Doesn't Matter and Why the NPD Does

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 122-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Art
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Eastern Germany ◽  
German Politics ◽  
New Development

German politicians, journalists, and analysts are predicting that the DVU's and the NPD's tenure in state parliaments will be brief. Referring to the NPD, Wolfgang Bosbach of the CDU claimed that the party would quickly lose its appeal because its politicians were "generally lazy, not very intelligent and therefore ineffective in parliament." Similar opinions have been voiced about the DVU. In this article, I argue that, while the DVU is likely to remain a marginal player in German politics, the NPD's electoral breakthrough represents a major new development. Over the last decade, the NPD has evolved into a highly organized social movement in eastern Germany. The fact that it can now mobilize portions of the eastern electorate strongly suggests that it has become a political force as well.

Architecture and the Memory of Nazism in Postwar Munich

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 140-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavriel D. Roseneld
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
To Come ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
The Impact

Few issues have possessed the centrality or sparked as much controversyin the postwar history of the Federal Republic of Germany(FRG) as the struggle to come to terms with the nation’s Nazi past.This struggle, commonly known by the disputed term Vergangenheitsbewältigung,has cast a long shadow upon nearly all dimensions ofGerman political, social, economic, and cultural life and has preventedthe nation from attaining a normalized state of existence inthe postwar period. Recent scholarly analyses of German memoryhave helped to broaden our understanding of how “successful” theGermans have been in mastering their Nazi past and have shed lighton the impact of the Nazi legacy on postwar German politics andculture. Even so, important gaps remain in our understanding ofhow the memory of the Third Reich has shaped the postwar life ofthe Federal Republic.

Eastern Germany Ten Years After Unification

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Ertman
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Germany ◽  
Structural Weakness ◽  
Present Pattern

On October 3, 1990 the territory of the German Democratic Republic was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany, thereby ending forty-five years of German division. At the time, assessments varied widely about whether the wholesale introduction of the West German political, legal, and socioeconomic systems into the formerly communist east would be a success, and what the implications of success or failure would be for the new united Germany. Ten years later, opinions on these fundamental questions remain divided. One group of optimistic observers maintains that the full integration of the east into an enlarged Federal Republic is well underway, though these observers acknowledge that progress has been slower and more uneven than first anticipated. A more pessimistic assessment is provided by those who claim that, if the present pattern of development continues, the east will remain in a position of permanent structural weakness vis-à-vis the west in a way analogous to that of Italy’s Mezzogiorno.

scholarly journals From the Editors

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. vi
Keyword(s):  
Theme Issue ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
The Holocaust

This theme issue of German Politics and Society, “The Dilemmas ofCommemoration: German Debates on the Holocaust in the 1990s,”features a collection of articles on the politics of memory and thedebates surrounding the Berlin Holocaust memorial. Compiledunder Christhard Hoffmann’s able direction, the issue presents thework of five eminent scholars who address this painful but essentialtopic from the perspectives of their various disciplines. The projectbegan at a UC Berkeley workshop in March 1998. We are pleased topresent the reworked, updated collection to our readership and thusreward this worthy endeavor with the audience that the topic andthese articles deserve.

„Denn mit dem Pogrom war ich und werde gewesen sein“

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilman Venzl
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
German Politics ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Transitional Time

Abstract:Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition is juxtaposed to Lotte Paepcke’s descriptions of the disrespect for Jews in Germany from the Weimar Republic, through the Third Reich, to the Federal Republic. While Paepcke’s depiction of the transitional time to National Socialism can be well understood in terms of Honneth’s theory as a continuous erosion of the various spheres of recognition, the theory is not fully adequate to describe her position on the German politics of memory of the postwar period. Paepcke is convinced that a renewed recognition of Jews in Germany after the Shoah can only be obtained by a broad acceptance of the concept of ‘negative symbiosis’ (Dan Diner), both publicly and individually.

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