This is a study of the growth of the right wing in a reunited Germany. Since the end of the Cold War, an explosion of xenophobia and attacks on foreigners - some of them asylum-seekers - has attracted world-wide media attention. Coming after the seemingly miraculous celebration of freedom accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall and the country's reunification, these events have caused acute anxiety within Germany itself. These phenomena are not exclusive to Germany, but their undertones of Nazism have prompted the question: how could this happen in a country that had so firmly repudiated its past and rightly prided itself on its anti-fascism and liberal democracy? The author sets this development in its historical context, showing the long-established continuity of right-wing influence and power in German conservative politics, and he explores the effects of the end of the Cold War on German society and politics. He also examines the growth of xenophobia and right-wing attitudes in the former GDR since the implosion of communism.
Germany's current position as a regional super-power and its contribution to European economic progress, make this text a significant and topical contribution.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- I Background
- 1 German Partition:A Failed Judgement of Solomon and the Myth of the Class State
- 2 The Two-tier Society: A New Partition?
- 3 Xenophobia and Right-wing Radical Tendencies among Young People in East Germany
- 4 National-revolutionary Sentiments in the Former GDR?
- II History and Political Culture of the GDR:Right-wing Author – itarian Views in a Nutshell
- 5 Imposition of the Party Line and the Militarisation of East Germany
- 6 The Language of the Third Reich and Anti-Semitism in the GDR
- 7 ‘Our Goethe, Your Mengele’, or Legitimising Anti-Fascism
- 8 The Ravensbrücker Ballade and ‘Anti-Fascism ’
- 9 The GDR and the Legacy of German Political Lutheranism
- 10 The GDR and the Legacy of Prussian Political Ideals
- III The Right Wing of the United Germany
- 11 An Anti-‘Anti-Fascist ’ Iconoclastic Fury?
- 12 The Historikerstreit: A Prefiguration of the Swing to the Right
- 13 The New Right
- 14 The Republikaner
- 15 Anti-Semitism
- 16 The ‘Debate on Asylum- seekers ’ and the In .uence of the New Right
- 17 Poland,the New Right, German Conservatives and ‘Ordinary Germans ’
- 18 Weimar Revisited?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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