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During the two decades before World War II, as this article demonstrates, the relationship between the Big Three American automakers and their parts suppliers was remarkably similar to the celebrated cooperation of Japanese auto assemblers and their trading partners after 1980. Unlike the arms-length multisourcing that characterized American firms after 1960, the prewar Detroit production culture featured collaborative development, cost sharing, and long-term innovative relationships. This system nurtured the rise of Chrysler, which not only grew from a standing start in 1920 to convert the General Motors-Ford duopoly into the "Big Three" by 1930, but also established itself as the industry's leader in innovation and profitability.

Between 1945 & 1950 the integration of refugees into the eastern part of postwar Germany involved structural changes in the population, response to the enormous social needs of millions of impoverished people & reduced chances for a comprehensive social policy. It is often forgotten & became a taboo subject in the GDR itself that the communist state tried to pursue a special social-integrative policy for "resettlers," the ideological term for refugees & expellees. The policy was restricted & quickly abandoned during the 1950s but left behind an important residue in East German society. Adapted from the source document.

Michel Foucault's later work on ethics is primarily concerned with historical repetition & self-transformation, two tools utilized to empower resistance & change. Foucault's ethics theories complement his earlier work in genealogy & archeology, if for no other reason than because these theories allow him to continue his all-encompassing search for truth. Likewise, Foucault's theories of the self support his ideas regarding ethical experimentation. Although Foucault's ethical ideologies fail to be counted as strong political approaches, it cannot be denied that his project is worthwhile. Foucault's ideas of self prompt one to begin a form of self-transformation, an important & painful process that may result in intensified political agency. K. A. Larsen

In dem Beitrag wird die dem Massenmord unter dem Nationalsozialismus vorangehende und ihn begleitende öffentliche Auseinandersetzung um die 'Euthanasie' untersucht. "Am Beispiel bestimmter Argumentationsfiguren dieser Debatte zwischen 1895 und 1945 ist zu fragen, inwiefern und auf welche Weise im Bereich von Funktionseliten und womöglich auch in Teilen der Gesamtbevölkerung Zustimmungsbereitschaft entstand. Dabei wird deutlich zu machen sein, wie stark das jeweils herrschende politische und weltanschauliche Klima im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik und im NS-Staat die Diskursentwicklung mitbestimmte ... Es ist insbesondere zu zeigen, daß sich die soziopolitischen Zäsuren von 1918 und 1933 und die damit verbundenen kollektiven Erfahrungen auf die 'Euthanasie'-Diskussion massiv als Radikalisierungsschübe auswirkten." (Textauszug)