Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between Communism and Fascisma key problem of twentieth-century German history. T…
Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany …
& Ldquo; Voluptuous Panic is simultaneously appalling and thrilling, repellent and seductive, grotesque and gorgeous & mdash;not a typical coffee table book. It would go better with absinthe drunk from a human skull. & rdquo; & mdash;Gary Meyer, Clean Sheets When Voluptuous Pani…
This seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period "Babylon on the Spree" has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musician…
Crime, detection, and German modernism -- Writing criminals : outsiders of society and the modernist case history -- Understanding criminals : the cases of Ella Klein and Franz Biberkopf -- Seeing criminals : mass murder, mass culture, mass public -- Tracking criminals : the cas…
"As the family goes, so goes the nation"--Constructing a Jewish body politic : declining fertility and the development of a Jewish population policy -- "A little state within a larger one" : the expansion of Jewish social work during the Weimar Republic -- Rescuing "endangered y…
Covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi economic boom and the ideological concepts and polit…
Kompakter Überblick über die Innenpolitik der Weimarer Republik auf neuestem Forschungsstand.
