Germany and the European East in the twentieth century / edited by Eduard Mühle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mühle, Eduard.

Series:

German historical perspectives ; 17.

German historical perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Europe, Eastern.

Geopolitics.

International relations.

Germany--Foreign relations--Europe, Eastern.

Germany.

Europe, Eastern--Foreign relations--Germany.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 187 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.

Summary:

How did German society perceive the European East during the short twentieth century? What were the mental maps Germans constructed as their images of the European East? How did these images alter over time due to changing political systems and to what extent did those mental perceptions influence political action and the relationship between Germany and Eastern Europe?

Tackling questions such as these, this book looks at the complicated relationship between Germany and the European East. Politically significant, this relationship was often fraught with tension, always delicate and never easy. The book looks at the social, cultural and political contexts that shaped the German image of the East during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic. In addition, it charts the mental maps that German society constructed with respect to single constituent parts of Eastern Europe, such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic States and the Soviet Union. The contributors consider how the relationship was transformed from one of hostility to one more conciliatory in character by the end of the twentieth century.

Contents:

The European East and Weimar Germany / Peter Kruger 7

Germany and the Soviet Union / Manfred Hildermeier 29

Germany and the Baltic Region in the Short Twentieth Century / Gert von Pistohlkors 45

Nazi Germany and Eastern Europe / Gerhard Hirschfeld 67

Poland and Germany from Interwar Period through to Time of Detente / Michael G. Muller 91

The European East on the Mental Map of German Ostforschung / Eduard Muhle 107

The Mutual Perception of Czechs and Germans from the Interwar Period until the Prague Spring / Hans Lemberg 131

Mending Fences: The Federal Republic of Germany and Eastern Europe / Axel Schildt 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1859737102

OCLC:

51810956