ISBN:
9780582267602
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Themes In Modern German History
Series Statement:
Themes in Modern German History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnic Minorities in 19th and 20th Century Germany : Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Turks and Others
DDC:
305.8/00943
Keywords:
Minorities - Germany - History - 19th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
This is the first book to trace the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It argues that all of the different types of states in Germany since 1800 have displayed some level of hostility towards ethnic minorities. While this reached its peak under the Nazis, the book suggests a continuity of intolerance towards ethnic minorities from 1800 that continued into the Federal Republic.During this long period German states were home to three different types of ethnic minorities in the form of- dispersed Jews and Gypsies; localised minorities such a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Glossary and Abbreviations; 1. Majorities and Minorities in German History; Nationalism, racism, immigration and ethnicity; Germans and minorities; Continuities and breaks in German history; 2. The Emergence of the German Nation State and the Position of Ethnic Minorities, c.1800-70; The crystallization of ideological nationalism and the birth of racism; Jewish emancipation and Jewish persecution; The romanticized and hated Gypsies
Description / Table of Contents:
The rise of Polish nationalism3. The Kaiserreich, 1871-1918: Prejudice, Exploitation and Full Emancipation; The flowering of nationalism, racism and antisemitism; The fully emancipated Jews; The legal exclusion of Gypsies; Peripheral minorities: Poles and others; The first example of labour importation; 4. A Liberal Interlude? The Weimar Republic, 1919-33; Economic, social and political background; Jewish life: success, economic disaster and antisemitism; Increasing control of the Gypsies; Peripheral minorities on both sides of German borders; New and old migrants
Description / Table of Contents:
5. The Triumph of the Racists: Nazism and Its ConsequencesIdeological and structural underpinnings; The exclusion and extermination of the Jews; The exclusion and partial extermination of the Gypsies; Persecution and exploitation of Slavs and others; 6. The Age of Mass Migration: Germanies after 1945; The post-war refugee crisis; Migrants in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-89; Migrants in the German Democratic Republic; The rebirth of Jewish, Gypsy, Danish and Sorb communities; 7. The New Germany and its Minorities; Mass immigration and control; The rebirth of racism
Description / Table of Contents:
Germans and minorities at the end of the twentieth centuryBibliographical Essay; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
