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Author Stern, Fritz, 1926-2016.

Title Dreams and delusions : the drama of German history / Fritz Stern.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  943.087 St45d 1999    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xviii, 341 pages ; 21 cm
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Note Originally published: A. Knopf, 1987. Published with a new preface by Yale University Press in 1999.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I. The Dream of Peace. 1. Einstein's Germany. 2. Fritz Haber: The Scientist in Power and in Exile. 3. Ernst Reuter: The Making of a Democratic Socialist. 4. The Burden of Success: Reflections on German Jewry -- II. The Lure of Power. 5. Germany 1933: Fifty Years Later. 6. National Socialism as Temptation -- III. Peace and the Release from Greatness. 7. Germany in a Semi-Gaullist Europe. 8. Germany and the United States: Visions of Declining Virtue -- IV. Historians and the German Past. 9. Americans and the German Past: A Century of American Scholarship. 10. Capitalism and the Cultural Historian. 11. The Speech to the Bundestag, June 17, 1987.
Summary "This collection of essays by eminent historian Fritz Stern ponders the monumental promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history. It is now reissued with a new introduction by the author."--Jacket.
Subject Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0300076223
9780300076226

 
    
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