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Berlin and Paris are squabbling over how to support Ukraine. To mend divisions and make Europe Kyiv's number one defender, Chancellor Scholz must take on a leadership role.

"From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget. Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great number of political revolutions from below. The German peasant wars of Thomas Müntzer, the bourgeois revolutions of the eighteenth century, the rise of the industrial worker in England, the turbulent journey of the Russian Soviets, the role of the European working class throughout the Cold War, student protests in 1968 and through to the present day, when we continue to fight to forge an alternative to the barbaric economic system. With sections focusing on the role of women, this history sweeps away the tired platitudes of the privileged upon which our current understanding is based, and provides an opportunity to see our history differently"--Provided by publisher

On the centenary of the establishment of modern Germany's first democratic republic, this special issue explores how the wealth of scholarship on Weimar culture from the last two and a half decades, since re-unification, has contributed specifically to the discipline of art history and vice versa. It also interrogates where art historical research on the Weimar Republic might be heading? What role, if any, do the Republic's intellectuals, artists and cultural producers continue to play in the present? The issue explores the cultural practices, production and reception of art from across Germany's towns, cities and rural provinces. It includes in-depth analyses of art made by historiographically under-represented Berlin-based women Lotte Laserstein and Jeanne Mammen, as well as by regionally-based artists including lesser-known work by Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn, Gela Forster and Heinrich Hoerle. It also includes essays on the overlooked material and iconographic contexts for the Merz collages of the more celebrated Kurt Schwitters, as well as in-depth research on the production and appearance of Notgeld - the vast sums of emergency money that were produced during Germany's period of hyper-inflation, between 1914 and 1923.

"Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century. Subjects covered include the peculiarities of Nazi Germany, the comparison between Hitler and Mussolini, eugenics and racial theory, genocide and defeat, memory and heroism, prostitution and women's rights, the Anglo-German relationship and the politics of culture in modern Germany"--

Xenophobia in Germany is examined, focusing on an incident in which a Turkish woman & two girls were killed in a fire-bomb explosion in northern Germany on 23 Nov 1992. It is noted that in less than a year, 800 people were seriously injured in hate crimes; 17 died. Several right-wing groups responsible for the attacks on foreigners & for marshaling xenophobic propaganda are discussed, & reasons why the state has been slow to respond to their aggression are explored. W. Howard

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Dissident Guests -- 2. Third Worldism and Collaboration -- 3. The Rupture of Vietnam -- 4. The Missing Bodies of June 2 -- 5. Corpse Polemics -- 6. The Cultural Revolution in West Germany -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Pauwels, Teun (2014). Populism in Western Europe: Comparing Belgium, Germany and Netherlands. Abingdon: Routledge, 209 pages.