The Extermination of the European Jews
The Extermination of the European Jews

Author: Christian Gerlach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0521880785

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A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.

Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe
Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe

Author: Jürgen Tampke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-12-10

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0230505627

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In the aftermath of World War Two, approximately three million Sudeten-Germans were expelled from their homes in the former Czechoslovakia because of their part in the dismemberment of the Czechoslovak Republic by Nazi Germany in 1938-39. For many years their representatives, the Sudeten-German Association, attempted in vain to redress the wrong done to their people. However, the end of the Cold War has given a new impetus to their campaign. Currently they attempt to block Czech entry into the EU unless there is restitution of confiscated properties. Jürgen Tampke tells the story of the Sudeten-Germans from the beginning of their settlement seven hundred years ago in what is now the Czech Republic to current times.

Vision and Reality: Central Europe after Hitler
Vision and Reality: Central Europe after Hitler

Author: Richard Dove

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2014-03-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9401210624

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All Hitler’s political opponents in exile sought to devise plans for the post-war future of Germany, Austria or Czechoslovakia. This volume brings together the different, often divergent proposals of groups and individuals in British exile and evaluates their contribution to actual post-war developments. Different essays trace the activities of the Free German Movement and its Austrian counterpart in evolving plans for the future of their countries or deal with the response of individuals such as Kurt Hiller or Friedrich Stampfer. Others consider the return of Socialist exiles to Austria or the involvement of exiles in Britain in the re-education of German prisoners of war. Ultimately, all plans for post-war Europe were trumped by the emerging Cold War, as Germany became the stage for enacting the political ambitions of the rival powers which had conquered it. Against this background, few of the hopes nurtured in exile came to fruition.

Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites
Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites

Author: Michael Carter-Sinclair

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1526144883

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Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites offers a radical challenge to conventional accounts of one of the darkest periods in the city’s history: the rise of organised, politically directed antisemitism between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Drawing on original research into the Christian Social movement, the book analyses how issues such as nationalism, mass poverty and social unrest enabled the gestation in ‘respectable’ society of antisemitism, an ideology that seemed to be dying in the 1860s, but which was given new strength from the 1880s. It delivers a riposte to portrayals of the lower clergy as a marginalised group that was driven to defend itself from liberal attacks by turning to anti-liberal, antisemitic action, as well as exposing the nurturing role played by senior clergy. As the book reveals, the Church in Vienna as a whole was determined to counter liberalism, to the point of welcoming any authoritarian regime that would do so.