By Udi Greenberg
The Weimar Century finds the origins of 2 dramatic occasions: Germany's post–World battle II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the chilly warfare. mixing highbrow, political, and foreign histories, Udi Greenberg exhibits that the rules of Germany’s reconstruction lay within the country’s first democratic test, the Weimar Republic (1918–33). He lines the trails of 5 the most important German émigrés who participated in Weimar’s severe political debates, spent the Nazi period within the usa, after which rebuilt Europe after a devastating conflict. interpreting the unforeseen tales of those varied individuals—Protestant political philosopher Carl J. Friedrich, Socialist theorist Ernst Fraenkel, Catholic publicist Waldemar Gurian, liberal legal professional Karl Loewenstein, and diplomacy theorist Hans Morgenthau—Greenberg uncovers the highbrow and political forces that solid Germany’s democracy after dictatorship, battle, and occupation.
In restructuring German notion and politics, those émigrés additionally formed the currents of the early chilly warfare. Having borne witness to Weimar’s political clashes and violent upheavals, they known as on democratic regimes to completely mobilize their voters and assets in international fight opposed to their Communist enemies. within the strategy, they won access to the top degrees of yank energy, serving as top-level advisors to American career experts in Germany and Korea, specialists for the nation division in Latin the USA, and leaders in universities and philanthropic foundations throughout Europe and the U.S.. Their rules grew to become essential to American international hegemony.
From interwar Germany to the sunrise of the yankee century, The Weimar Century sheds gentle at the the most important rules, contributors, and politics that made the trans-Atlantic postwar order.
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