Download or read book Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic written by David Felix and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1971. Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic examines reparations in Germany following the First World War. Financial reparation was the most difficult and dangerous of the conditions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty. The amount of reparations - three times the country's annual income - was beyond Germany's capacity to pay. The United States, by insisting on the payment of Allied war debts, forced the Allies in turn to insist on reparations. Postwar polemics concentrated on German aggression and war crimes, but the real issue was the damage done to the world's economic mechanism. In the end all nations suffered, including the United States.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Shulamit Volkov and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) tells of a man who--both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish--rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedented--no Jew in Germany had ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenau's success was marked by tragedy: within months he was assassinated by right-wing extremists seeking to destroy the newly formed Republic.Drawing on Rathenau's papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German-Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled with his Jewish identity yet treasured his "otherness." Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Imperial and Weimar Germany and of Berlin's financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German Jewry in the period before Hitler's rise to power.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic the Politics of Reparation written by David Felix and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Society written by Walther Rathenau and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The New Society" by Walther Rathenau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Harry Kessler and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Weimar Germany written by Paul Bookbinder and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weimar period, which extended from 1919 to 1933, was a time of political violence, economic crisis, generational and gender tension, and cultural experiment and change in Germany. Despite these major issues, the Republic is often treated only as a preface to the study of the rise of Fascism. This text seeks to restore the balance, exploring the Weimar period in its own right. Amongst the topics discussed are: Weimar as the avant-garde artistic centre of Europe in the 1920s when many cultural figures were politically engaged on both sides of the political spectrum; Weimar as a German state racked by conflict over questions of morality versus ideas of greater sexual freedom for women, homosexual rights, abortion and birth control; the struggle to win the hearts and minds of German youth, a struggle won decisively by the right-wing; and Weimar as the first German state in which women played a significant political role.
Download or read book The Weimar Republic written by John Hiden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set of factors which finally brought Hitler to power. This clear and balanced study is now fully revised - for the first time since its publication in 1974 - to take account of the latest research.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau His Life and Work written by Graf Harry Kessler and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Weimar Republic written by Colin Storer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, however, a vibrant cultural scene flourished, which continues to influence the international art world through the aesthetics of Expressionism and the Bauhaus movement. In the fields of art, literature, theatre, cinema, music and architecture not to mention science Germany became a world leader during the 1920s, while her perilous political and economic position ensured that no US or European statesman could afford to ignore her. Incorporating original research and a synthesis of the existing historiography, this revised edition will provide students and a general readership with a clear and concise introduction to the history of the first German Republic.
Download or read book Weimar Publics Weimar Subjects written by Kathleen Canning and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser’s state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties.
Download or read book Weimar Germany written by Anthony McElligott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the history of Weimar Germany challenges readers to rethink preconceived ideas of the republic and throws new light on important areas such as constitutional and social reform, Jewish life, gender and cultural developments.
Download or read book The Weimar Republic Sourcebook written by Anton Kaes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power. Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social life. Its thirty chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "New Woman," Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascism. While devoting much attention to the Republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographies. This will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, German, and women's studies.
Download or read book Conservatism in the Weimar Republic written by Charles Eugene Frye and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walther Rathenau Industrialist Banker Intellectual and Politician written by Walther Rathenau and published by Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his Jewish origins, Walter Rathenau became a star of Berlin society, and his political career took him to the head of the AEG, the Ministry for Reconstruction, and, in 1922, the Foreign Ministry. This first English edition of his notes and diaries provides a fascinating insight into the personality and achievements of one of the most influential figures in Wilhemine and Weimar Germany.
Download or read book Rethinking the Weimar Republic written by Anthony McElligott and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK This study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the Weimar Republic by stretching its chronological-political parameters from 1916 to 1936, arguing that neither 1918 nor 1933 constituted distinctive breaks in early 20th-century German history. This book: - Covers all of the key debates such as inheritance of the past, the nature of authority and culture - Rethinks topics of traditional concern such as the economy, Article 48, the Nazi vote and political violence - Discusses hitherto neglected areas, such as provincial life and politics, the role of law and Republican cultural politics
Download or read book Elites Against Democracy written by Walter Struve and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace. He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be widespread in the West. The development of this concept of an open-yet-authoritarian elite is approached through the analysis of the political ideas and activities of nine elitists, among them Max Weber, Walther Rathenau, and Oswald Spengler. The author relates biography to intellectual, political, social, and economic history, so that his work becomes a study in the political and social context of intellectual history. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Walter Rathenau written by Count Harry Kessler and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALTHER RATHENAU: HIS LIFE AND WORK. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 3 I. FATHER AND SON 5 II. THE WAY OF THE INTELLECT 21 III. SOCIAL INTERLUDE 43 y IV. THE REPUDIATION OF THE INTELLECT 55 V. FRIENDSHIPS 64 VI. THE REALM OF THE SOUL 74 VII. THE PATH TO THE ABYSS 117 VIII. IN DAYS TO COME 169 IX. ISOLATION 222 X. THE NEW FOREIGN POLICY THE FIGHT FOR PEACE 268 XI. THERE IS NO DEATH 34 APPENDIX 365 INDEX TO RATHENAUS WORKS 371 INDEX 373 ILLUSTRATIONS WALTHER RATHENAU IN THE CAR IN WHICH HE WAS ASSASSINATED WALTHER AND ERICH RATHENAU 1 8 WALTHER RATHENAU, FROM THE PORTRAIT BY EDVARD MUNCH 5 2 EMIL RATHENAU 6O THE C BREVIARIUM MYSTICUM 7 WALTHER RATHENAU BEFORE THE WAR IO4 ROOM IN THE SCHLOSS FREIENWALDE .138 WALTHER RATHENAUS MOTHER 3 2 WALTHER RATHENAU