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Weimarer Erfahrungen - Deutsche Emigranten in Amerika und die transatlantische Nachkriegsordnung

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This study examines the origins of two incisive processes: the transformation of post-war Germany from a National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft to a liberal democracy and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Its central objects of study are five German emigrants: the political theorist and Protestant Carl J. Friedrich, the Socialist political scientist Ernst Fraenkel, the Catholic publicist Waldemar Gurian, the liberal lawyer Karl Loewenstein, and finally Hans Morgenthau, a political scientist, lawyer, and theoretician in the field of international relations. They had all been intensively involved in the political debates of the Weimar era, had survived National Socialism in exile in the United States, and all went on to become influential American intellectuals and political advisors. Udi Greenberg traces their paths and demonstrates through the application of approaches from intellectual history and politics that experiences from the Weimer Republic became foundational for Germany's democratic reconstruction as well as for the transatlantic post-war order. Beginning in the interwar period in Germany and reaching until the end of the East/West conflict, this study illuminates five figures, their ideas, and the resulting political decision-making that was to have an enduring impact on Germany's relationship to America as well as on the fabric of the Cold War.

About the author

Udi Greenberg ist Historiker und Associate Professor of History am Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

Summary

This study examines the origins of two incisive processes: the transformation of post-war Germany from a National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft to a liberal democracy and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Its central objects of study are five German emigrants: the political theorist and Protestant Carl J. Friedrich, the Socialist political scientist Ernst Fraenkel, the Catholic publicist Waldemar Gurian, the liberal lawyer Karl Loewenstein, and finally Hans Morgenthau, a political scientist, lawyer, and theoretician in the field of international relations. They had all been intensively involved in the political debates of the Weimar era, had survived National Socialism in exile in the United States, and all went on to become influential American intellectuals and political advisors. Udi Greenberg traces their paths and demonstrates through the application of approaches from intellectual history and politics that experiences from the Weimer Republic became foundational for Germany’s democratic reconstruction as well as for the transatlantic post-war order. Beginning in the interwar period in Germany and reaching until the end of the East/West conflict, this study illuminates five figures, their ideas, and the resulting political decision-making that was to have an enduring impact on Germany’s relationship to America as well as on the fabric of the Cold War.

Foreword

Von der Zwischenkriegszeit in Deutschland bis zum Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts beleuchtet die Untersuchung fünf Persönlichkeiten, die das Verhältnis Deutschlands zu Amerika und das Gefüge des Kalten Kriegs nachhaltig prägten.

Product details

Authors Udi Greenberg
Assisted by Felix Kurz (Translation)
Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
 
Original title The Weimar Century
Languages German
Product format Hardback
Released 01.07.2021
 
EAN 9783525370582
ISBN 978-3-525-37058-2
No. of pages 322
Dimensions 165 mm x 27 mm x 237 mm
Weight 711 g
Illustrations mit 9 Abb.
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)

Nationalsozialismus, Kalter Krieg, Zwischenkriegszeit, Emigration, Weimarer Republik, Exil, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Geschichte Deutschlands, auseinandersetzen

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