Children of a new fatherland : Germany's post-war right-wing politics / J.H. Brinks ; translated by Paul Vincent ; foreword by David Binder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinks, Jan Herman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right-wing extremists--Germany.

Right-wing extremists.

Germany.

Political culture--Germany.

Political culture.

Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.

Politics and government.

Germany--Politics and government--1990-.

Physical Description:

xx, 200 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2000.

Summary:

Freelance writer Brinks investigates the explosion of xenophobia and attacks on foreigners in Germany since the country's reunification and the end of the Cold War. Setting this phenomenon in context, he presents evidence suggesting an historical continuity of right-wing influence in German politics throughout the 20th century. A shorter version of this book was published in Dutch in 1994 (BOOM Publishers, Amsterdam); this translation is by Paul Vincent, and journalist David Binder provides a foreword.

Contents:

1 German Partition: A Failed Judgement of Solomon and the Myth of the Class State 3

2 The Two-tier Society: A New Partition? 13

3 Xenophobia and Right-wing Radical Tendencies among Young People in East Germany 23

4 National-revolutionary Sentiments in the Former GDR? 36

Part 2 History and Political Culture of the GDR: Right-wing Authoritarian Views in a Nutshell 43

5 Imposition of the Party Line and the Militarisation of East Germay 45

6 The Language of the Third Reich and Anti-Semitism in the GDR 52

7 'Our Goethe, Your Mengele', or Legitimising Anti-fascism 59

8 The Ravensbrucker Ballade and 'Anti-fascism' 69

9 The GDR and the Legacy of German Political Lutheranism 72

10 The GDR and the Legacy of Prussian Political Ideals 82

Part 3 The Right Wing of the United Germany 91

11 An Anti-'Anti-fascist' Iconoclastic Fury? 93

12 The Historikerstreit: A Prefiguration of the Swing to the Right 101

13 The New Right 110

14 The Republikaner 115

15 Anti-Semitism 124

16 The 'Debate on Asylum-seekers' and the Influence of the New Right 129

17 Poland, the New Right, German Conservatives and 'Ordinary Germans' 143

18 Weimar Revisited? 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.

ISBN:

1860644589

OCLC:

43360287