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By the 1930s over two-thirds of Germans lived in towns and cities, and those who did not found themselves inexorably affected by the ever-growing urban vortex. The German Urban Experience 1900 - 1945 surveys the social and cultural history of Germany in this crucial period through written, visual and oral sources. Focusing on urbanism as one of the major forces of change, this book presents a wide range of archive sources, many available for the first time, as well as film scenes, literature and art.Exploring the German experience of 'urbanism as a way of life' in cities from Berl

"For scholars the 'Weimar paradigm' has been an object lesson in failure. As a political system, the Republic allegedly rested on weak foundations and was considered flawed in its constitutional construction. This chapter challenges the idea of a defective Constitution. The author argues that the discourse on authority had its origins in the First World War, notably in the work of defenders of authoritarianism and those in favor of a Volksstaat. By re-examining key articles of the constitution relating to the roles of executive and legislature that appear to contradict one another, and in particular the influence of Hugo Preuß and above all Carl Schmitt, the author argues that the relationship of the Republic to authority should be understood as a complex hybrid of liberal progressivism and authoritarianism that moved from a consensual basis commencing in 1916 to one of open confrontation by the beginning of the 1930s." (author's abstract)

9100: McElligott schildert - weitgehend auf der Basis von Archivalien - unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der sozialen Verhältnisse die Entwicklung der Arbeiterbewegung in Altona. Den "Sülze-Krawallen" im Juni 1919, dem Aufstand 1923 und dem "Blutsonntag" 1932 werden spezielles Augenmerk gewidmet. Der Autor versucht, Komponenten des Abwendungsprozesses "der Arbeiter vom politisch-parlamentarischen System" der Weimarer Republik aufzuzeigen. (WU)

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives -- Notes -- Part I: Two Preliminary Observations -- Chapter 2: A Few Observations on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism -- The Basic Premises of Hard-Core Denial -- Responding to Holocaust Deniers: A Rational Perspective -- Holocaust Denial: Age-Old Anti-Semitism in New Clothing -- Denial: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing -- Soft-Core Denial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Antisemitism and Holocaust Inversion -- Notes -- Part II: Religion -- Chapter 4: The Political Dimensions of Theology: Christianity and Antisemitism -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Chapter 5: "Every Sane Thinker Must Be an Anti-­Semite": Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Theology of Radical Catholic Traditionalists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Religion, Prejudice and Annihilation. The Case of Traditional Islamic Judeophobia and Its Transformation into the Modern Islamist Antisemitism -- Islamist Jew-Hatred and the New Antisemitism -- What Is the Islamization of Antisemitism? -- The Narrative of Islamist Antisemitism Told by Sayyid Qutb in His "Battle Against the Jews" -- From Islamist Ideology to Jihadist Action: Sayyid Qutb's Executioners-Hamas -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part III: Historical and Contemporary Political Arenas -- Chapter 7: Political Antisemitism, 'State Jews' and Roosevelt's New Deal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World During World War II and the Holocaust: and Its Aftereffects -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Iranian Antisemitism and the Holocaust -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Antisemitism in Contemporary Germany -- Antisemitic Attitudes -- Antisemitic Offences -- Organized Antisemitism -- Public Debates -- Monitoring Antisemitism -- Notes

This innovative volume draws together in a wide-ranging collection a series of new perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the 'age of fascism'. The contributions go beyond the conventional stereotypes of organised resistance to examine the tensions and ambiguities within the communities, national and local, that opposed fascism