Rewriting German history : new perspectives on modern Germany

Editors' Preface-- Jan Ruger and Nikolaus Wachsmann1. Crossing the North Sea - is there a British Approach to German History?-- Geoff Eley PART I: THE LOCAL NATION2. Cologne Cathedral as an International Monument-- Astrid Swenson3. Germany's Boundaries and the Politics of Defeat: Heligoland, 1918-1933-- Jan Ruger4. Cosmopolitan Highlanders: Region and Nation in Anglo-German Encounters in the Himalayas, 1903-1945-- Tom Neuhaus 5. The 'Cleansing' of Culture in Germany's Lost East after the Second World War-- Hugo Service6. Traitors, Heroes, Martyrs, Victims? Veterans of Nazi 'Forced Conscription' from Alsace and Moselle-- Elizabeth VlossakPART II: CULTURE AND SOCIETY7. The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe-- Rachel G. Hoffman 8. Finding the Female Self: Women's Autonomy, Marriage, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg-- Lynn Abrams9. Beasts in Human Clothing? Pimps, Moral Panics, and the German Underworld-- Victoria Harris10. Myth-making in Hitler's Shadow: The Transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945-- Bernhard Fulda11. East German Perspectives on Continuity and Change across the Caesura of 1989-- Hester VaizeyPART III: THE PECULIARITIES OF NAZI GERMANY12. Justifying Genocide in Weimar Germany: The Armenian Genocide, German Nationalists, and Assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923-- Stefan Ihrig13. Interwar Britain and German Racial Theory-- Bradley W. Hart14. The Cultivation of Mussolini's Image in Weimar and Nazi Germany-- Christian Goeschel 15. Dictators for Sale: The Commercialisation of the Duce and the Fuhrer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany-- Bianca Gaudenzi16. Veiled Survivors: Jews, Roma and Muslims in the Years of the Holocaust-- David Motadel17. The Nazi Concentration Camps in International Context: Comparisons and Connections-- Nikolaus Wachsmann.
Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.