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Synopsis
Germany is the most important and powerful country in Europe. And yet it remains strangely little understood - by itself, as much as by the rest of the world. It is in a state of remarkable flux, confronting the demons of the past, whilst also seeking to make the West and the East into one country - a much greater challenge than it seemed. The coming enlargement of the European Union, which will bring much of formerly communist Eastern Europe into the EU, will make Germany more pivotal than ever. So what makes this country tick?
For decades after the Second World War, the country remained strongly polluted by the Nazi legacy; there was little attempt to confront the past. For today's younger generation, by contrast, Nazism was a weird aberration that they themselves have difficulty in understanding. The book will explore those changes, and how German society itself is still in the midst of enormous change.
The story takes us through three periods: Before the Poison (pre-1933), The Poison (1933-45) and - the heart of the book - the period of Coming to Terms, and the changes that this period has brought to the shape of the country. The coming to terms with the past overlaps, from 1990 onwards, with the East-West story, where mutual misunderstanding has been rife.
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About the Author
Steve Crawshaw is London Director of Human Rights Watch and former Germany bureau chief for the Independent. He is the author of 'Goodbye to the USSR' and his five-part BBC series 'Germany Inside Out' was broadcast in Spring 2003.
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“Well-informed British journalist Crawshaw focuses on changes in the German mindset and society of the last 15 years, set against the backdrop of German history since the end of WW II.... Drawing especially on post-WW II German literary works, the author poignantly characterizes, sometimes through compelling vignettes, how the self-pitying Germans of the 1950s faced the unresolved conflicts of the 1960s, the destructive violence of the 1970s, and the confused transition of the untied Germany into the 1990s.... Recommended.” –Choice, 5/05 (CHOICE)
Mention in New Statesman, March 2009
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0826463207
- ISBN 13 9780826463203
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages250
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