German HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghae035
Jessica Cretney
{"title":"Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology","authors":"Jessica Cretney","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghae035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141666956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghae034
Jennifer Lynn
{"title":"Writing and Rewriting the Reich: Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-War Press","authors":"Jennifer Lynn","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghae034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141666588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-06DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghae030
Amelia Hutchinson
{"title":"Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology","authors":"Amelia Hutchinson","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghae030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141672183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghae028
Bart van der Steen
{"title":"Living in Legends: Frames, Legends and the Conflict over the Hamburg Hafenstraße, 1981–1995","authors":"Bart van der Steen","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghae028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the 1980s, a conflict over eight occupied houses in the Hafenstraße in Hamburg developed into one of the most contested squatter struggles in West Germany and strongly resonated with squatters abroad. As the conflict escalated, a long-drawn-out discussion unfolded between Hamburg’s squatters, authorities, media and inhabitants over who the squatters were and how the city should deal with them. This article sets out to explain why these eight buildings became such a potent symbol for so many different groups. In order to do so, it combines social movement studies methods with folklore studies approaches and analyses the Hafenstraße as a site of legend, as a canvas onto which various actors projected societal hopes, ideals and fears. Central to this analysis are the four main legendary tropes that circulated in the 1980s: the Hafenstraße as a refuge for young dropouts, as a lawless zone, as a haven for terrorists and as indicative of the city’s governance crisis. Finally, it asks how such legends informed people’s actions and explains the importance of these tropes in the escalation and resolution of the conflict.","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141681376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad072
Andrew D Evans
{"title":"‘Real National Work’: The Politics of Nazi Race Science in Upper Silesia, 1934–1942","authors":"Andrew D Evans","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghad072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad072","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article analyses the political and scientific controversy surrounding a race science project undertaken by the anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt under National Socialism. Beginning in 1934, Eickstedt and his team of assistants conducted a series of racial studies on the population of Upper Silesia, a contested borderland in East Prussia. Motivated by a nationalist desire to counter the work of Polish anthropologists in the region, Eickstedt argued that the population of Upper Silesia belonged predominantly to the so-called ‘Nordic race’ and that the territory was thus fundamentally German. Nazi officials, however, viewed the Silesian studies with alarm, since the results also appeared to show that people in the area were a racial mixture and that the ‘Nordic race’ made up less than 40 per cent of the population in some locales. They worried that Eickstedt’s studies could undermine Germany’s territorial claims in the region and threaten national unity. The ensuing controversy presents a case in which the anthropological concept of ‘race’, rather than serving its usual role in Nazi thinking as the biological underpinning of the Volk (or people), threatened to undermine its coherence. The reaction to Eickstedt’s Silesian studies demonstrates a lack of consensus on race within the Nazi system, suggesting that understandings of race in Nazi Germany were neither as coherent nor as uniform as the paradigm of the ‘racial state’ has assumed.","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139451025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad076
M. Fenemore
{"title":"Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990","authors":"M. Fenemore","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghad076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138946606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad074
Hannah Cogan
{"title":"Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation","authors":"Hannah Cogan","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghad074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138944244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad073
Andreas Berger
{"title":"Bodies in Pain: Early Modern Suicide by Proxy","authors":"Andreas Berger","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghad073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad073","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines early modern suicide by proxy in terms of the experience of pain. ‘Suicide by proxy’ refers to committing a capital crime in order to bring about one’s own death by execution. Exploring the history of prolonged pain typically associated with suicide by proxy, the article argues that suicide by proxy is primarily a story about pain. The analysis here follows the story of Sara Stähelin and her attempt to use suicide by proxy as a way to liberate herself from her hurting body and mind, to receive comfort and compassion from her estranged community and—most importantly—to save her soul from eternal damnation. Understanding suicide by proxy as a story of how early modern pain could materialize offers a new and fruitful approach to the study of early modern pain and its mediation between culture and body.","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German HistoryPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad067
Chris Law
{"title":"End Game: The 1989 Revolution in East Germany","authors":"Chris Law","doi":"10.1093/gerhis/ghad067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44471,"journal":{"name":"German History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138612584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}