The American Experiment in Germany
Author | : Oron James Hale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Oron James Hale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Friedrich Pollock |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674048466 |
During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that the fascist attitudes of the Nazi era had weakened to a large degree. The author and his colleagues, who returned in 1949 from the United States, were skeptical. In their view, public opinion is not simply an aggregate of individually held opinions, but is fundamentally a public concept, formed through interaction in conversations and with prevailing attitudes and ideas "in the air." In this book, they published their findings on their group discussion experiments that delved deeper into the process of opinion formation.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : James Q. Whitman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2017-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400884632 |
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies. As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world.
Author | : Saul Kussiel Padover |
Publisher | : New York, Duell |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
OSS agent Padover led an American pschological warfare team into Germany as the war ended.. His report describes the state of mind of Germans he met as their country's military crumbled.
Author | : James MacGregor Burns |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 2467 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 148043020X |
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. In The Workshop of Democracy, Burns explores more than a half-century of dramatic growth and transformation of the American landscape, through the addition of dozens of new states, the shattering tragedy of the First World War, the explosion of industry, and, in the end, the emergence of the United States as a new global power. And in The Crosswinds of Freedom, Burns offers an articulate and incisive examination of the US during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower—through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rapid pace of technological change that gave rise to the “American Century.”
Author | : Todd Strasser |
Publisher | : Ember |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307979121 |
This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hilter Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader. All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten.
Author | : David M. Rubenstein |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982165804 |
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show—American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and many more. In this lively collection of conversations—the third in a series from David Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. -Jill Lepore on the promise of America -Madeleine Albright on the American immigrant -Ken Burns on war -Henry Louis Gates Jr. on reconstruction -Elaine Weiss on suffrage -John Meacham on civil rights -Walter Isaacson on innovation -David McCullough on the Wright Brothers -John Barry on pandemics and public health -Wynton Marsalis on music -Billie Jean King on sports -Rita Moreno on film Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize–winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is—and what it can be.
Author | : Victor Grossman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Faced with an accusation from the US Army's highest legal authority in 1952, Grossman left his unit stationed in Bavaria and swam the Danube to East Germany. He traces his childhood and experiences as a student, worker, and soldier; then describes life in his new home among a surprisingly large community of defectors. There is no index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author | : Kuno Francke |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2018-03-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780365258803 |
Excerpt from The Parliamentary Experiment in Germany: A Paper Read Before the American Historical Association, May 23, 1887 Public services of such an extraordinary merit cannot remain without reward. In Germany, the result has been that the ablest and most energetic minds of the nation to-day are drawn into the ranks of monarchy, and that the weight of public Opinion lies at present with the numerous class of govern ment officials. Those who consider democracy as the only rational form of government cannot but deplore this result. But it must be said that the ofiicial class in Germany is not a caste in the hateful sense of the word. It has its privileges. But these privileges are open to all they may be attained by the son of a cobbler as well as by that of a railroad president. The only pre-requisite is education. And is it altogether an irrational state of society in which the natural selection of the fittest is stimulated by a premium offered to education? Whatever may be the merits or demerits of German scholars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.