History & Memory, Volume 17, Number 1/2, Spring/Summer 2005,
pp. 45-86 (Article)
Published by Indiana University Press
The tuing of the millennium has predictably spurred fresh interest in reinterpreting the twentieth century as a whole. Recent years have witnessed a bountiful crop of academic surveys, mass-market picture books and television programs devoted to recalling the deeds and misdeeds of the last one hundred years. Germany alone experienced all of the mode forms of govement in one compressed century—from constitutional monarchy, democratic socialism, fascism, Weste liberalism to Soviet-style communism—has also made it a favorite object lesson about the so-called Age of Extremes. Little wonder that several commentators have gone so far as to christen the short twentieth century between 1914 and 1989 as really the German century, to the extent that German history is commonly held as emblematic of Europe’s twentieth century more generally.
pp. 45-86 (Article)
Published by Indiana University Press
The tuing of the millennium has predictably spurred fresh interest in reinterpreting the twentieth century as a whole. Recent years have witnessed a bountiful crop of academic surveys, mass-market picture books and television programs devoted to recalling the deeds and misdeeds of the last one hundred years. Germany alone experienced all of the mode forms of govement in one compressed century—from constitutional monarchy, democratic socialism, fascism, Weste liberalism to Soviet-style communism—has also made it a favorite object lesson about the so-called Age of Extremes. Little wonder that several commentators have gone so far as to christen the short twentieth century between 1914 and 1989 as really the German century, to the extent that German history is commonly held as emblematic of Europe’s twentieth century more generally.