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Welchen Platz nehmen die Kämpfe von Gewerkschaften und anderen sozialen Bewegungen in der kollektiven Erinnerung ein? Wie ist es um deren Errungenschaften bestellt? Was stärkt die Werte sozialer Demokratie in der Erinnerungskultur? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes bieten erstmals ausführliche Einblicke in die Erinnerungsgeschichte sozialer Kämpfe und...
Welchen Platz nehmen die Kämpfe von Gewerkschaften und anderen sozialen Bewegungen in der kollektiven Erinnerung ein? Wie ist es um deren Errungenschaften bestellt? Was stärkt die Werte sozialer Demokratie in der Erinnerungskultur? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes bieten erstmals ausführliche Einblicke in die Erinnerungsgeschichte sozialer Kämpfe und...
Despite all the political and ideological pronouncements, there were also various forms of social inequality in the 'real existing socialism' of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). These have been extensively studied at the latest since the construction of the Berlin Wall. Since these years, there has been an intensified preoccupation with social...
When it was decided in the late summer of 1990 that the Soviet troops would withdraw completely from the recently unified Federal Republic of Germany by the end of 1994, the modalities and logistical details of the withdrawal of people and material soon developed into a heated political issue. The 'Russians' and the spaces they had occupied since t...
Despite all the political and ideological pronouncements, there were also various forms of social inequality in the ‘real existing socialism’ of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). These have been extensively studied at the latest since the construction of the Berlin Wall. Since these years, there has been an intensified preoccupation with social...
Raffael Scheck sheds light on the forbidden intimate relationships between German women and Belgian, British and French prisoners of war during World War II. As many as 20,000 such relationships are estimated to have occurred, with the ‘unreported’ number probably many times higher. The regime eyed these love affairs, which came about for very diff...
The article deals with the role of the registry office and registrars in the legal implementation of binational or intercultural marriages in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, from the turn of the 20th century until the 1930s. As the article shows, these marriage applications posed a manifold challenge for the actors involved; on the one h...
This essay examines the cultural, ethnic, and “racial” boundaries of the National Socialist “Volksgemeinschaft” based on planned, failed, and completed marriages between German women and non-European men in the early twentieth century. From evidence in the relevant files from the Federal Archives and the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Off...
This book addresses the nature and role of fear in the German world from the early modern period through to the 20th century. Offering the first collection that centres fear in the historical analysis of Central Europe since 1600, these essays demonstrate the importance of emotional experience to the study of the past.
Fear has been at the centre o...
The article deals with the consequences of the increasing presence of Chinese citizens in Germany since the end of the 19th century. Their presence also repeatedly led to marriages with female German citizens, which challenged the media, the public and state authorities in many ways. The focus of the presentation is initially on the symbolic and in...
Der Armutsbegriff ist komplex und sorgt aufgrund seiner normativen Aufladung und Offenheit häufig für Irritationen. Gerade seine Unverbindlichkeit prädestiniert ihn dafür, politisch instrumentalisiert zu werden. Zahlreiche öffentlich geführte politische Diskussionen belegen dies eindrücklich – und zwar in Geschichte und Gegenwart. In diesem Beitrag...
At the turn of the twentieth century, German authorities were increasingly confronted with the desire of couples of different nationalities to marry. This article analyses the administrative and political handling of the authorities, and thus explores the survey, production, circulation and adaption of administrative knowledge regarding these speci...
Eheschließungen deutscher Reichsangehöriger mit Ausländer_innen gab es in Deutschland auch schon vor 1918/19. In der Weimarer Republik wurde diesen Ehen jedoch noch einmal eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Aufgrund der Grenzverschiebungen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und den damit einhergehenden verstärkten Migrationsbewegungen waren die zuständi...
This article focuses on the context and lasting consequences of the withdrawal of the Russian troops from the small town of Wünsdorf in East Germany (Brandenburg region) in 1994. The headquarters of the high command of the Soviet forces in Germany had been located in Wünsdorf since 1954. The locals lived in close proximity to the Russians. In the G...
This article discusses the processing of social dissent and its media relevance in East German society in the 1970s and 1980s. The Gegenwartskriminalfilm (contemporary crime movie) Polizeiruf 110 and the courtroom television show Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort are fruitful film sources for analyzing the specific ways in which social reality and soci...
Immer dann, wenn heute, gerade in Wahlkampfzeiten, der Aus- oder Abbau sozialstaatlicher Leistungen diskutiert oder neue Armutszahlen publiziert werden, kann mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit folgendes Szenario beobachtet werden: Nicht selten erfahren dabei altbekannte Zuschreibungsmodi und Sozialklischees eine Revitalisierung, scheiden daraus resultie...
