Germany, 1945-1990: A Parallel History - Hardcover

Weber, Jurgen

9789639241701: Germany, 1945-1990: A Parallel History

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9639241709 ISBN 13: 9789639241701

Publisher: Central European University Pr, 2004

This book offers lively description and convincing interpretation of the most significant events, cruces and ongoing themes in German history from the end of the Second World War up to the present.

The chronologies that accompany each chapter record the most important dates, facts and names occurring in the narrative. J�rgen Weber`s text supplies the reader with a combination of vivid descriptive history, easily absorbed chronology, and a reliable reference work for the parallel lives of the two Germanies, a product of the Cold War.

Weber describes in a clear and reader-friendly manner the history of Germany since 1945. The narrative begins with the period of the allied occupation and progresses through the diverse developments in East and West Germany up to the Federal Republic of today. The most important events, cruces and ongoing themes of the last fifty years are not only succinctly and vividly presented and interpreted, they are also placed in the context of international political developments. Each chapter is accompanied by a chronology featuring the most significant dates and facts relating to the period it covers. The last chapter gives a summary of what happened after 1990 and on present and future political problems of German reunification.

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From the Publisher:

J�rgen Weber was born in 1944 and studied history, political science and Romance language and literature at the universities of Mainz and Strasbourg. He lectures at the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing. He has published numerous works on contemporary German history.

From the Inside Flap:

"With hindsight it certainly seems apt to speak of the irony of history. At a time when the GDR, in the late 1980’s, had finally become accepted by a majority of the citizens of the Federal Republic as a second sovereign state in Germany, when senior SPD and SED politicians had just published a joint paper on "The Clash of Ideology and Mutual Security", when Head of State Honecker was being received by Chancellor Kohl with all the honours demanded by protocol, and finally when a leading German newspaper decided to change a policy of decades by dropping the depreciatory inverted commas round the name "DDR" and henceforth unequivocally accepting the name its rulers had chosen, at this very moment the SED regime actually stood on the verge of economic collapse. The end was near, but there was no one who would have bet on it."

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