Organic Modernity

Jarausch, Konrad H.

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Encounters with Modernity

Jarausch

2022

The Oxford Handbook of German Politics

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Spanning the entire twentieth century, this essay explores the German encounter with modernity. In broad strokes it argues that the authoritarian modernization of the Empire claimed to be different and superior to the West. The loss of the First World War opened the door to Weimar’s democratization which was ended by the Great Depression. The organic modernity of Hitler’s Third Reich led into another World War and the Holocaust. The anti-fascist welfare dictatorship of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) turned out to be a dead end, since the German Democratic Republic (GDR) became a repressive Soviet satellite. Only the second attempt to create a democracy in the Federal Republic was so attractive that it overcame even the German division. Tired of such extremes, most Germans finally accepted liberal self-government and a social market economy, becoming a pillar of European integration. From this perspective, German history in the twentieth century can therefore be read as a partly failed and ultimately successful search for a humane form of modernity.

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Encounters with Modernity

Jarausch

2022

The Oxford Handbook of German Politics

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Obsesja porządku. Niemieccy architekci planują w okupowanej Polsce 1939–1945

Gutschow¹

2021

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The author explores the activities of German spatial and urban planners, architects and interior designers as well as their “order obsession”, which was to be used in the Germanisation of the newly subjugated territories. He provides numerous examples of projects and realisations which have not been discussed before in the subject literature. He analyses the moral aspects of this ordering work and the active engagement in occupation policy and the Holocaust of those implementing it. He follows the fates of particular specialists during and after the war.

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Organic Modernity

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Encounters with Modernity

Encounters with Modernity

Obsesja porządku. Niemieccy architekci planują w okupowanej Polsce 1939–1945

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