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unusual facts about German History



Christian Saehrendt

Reviewed in German History 4/2011 by Jonathan Osmond; The American Historical Revue April/2010 by Benita Blessing; Journal of Cold War Studies 3/2010 by Roger Kanet; Revue de L'art, 1/2010 by Mathilde Arnaux (French); H-German 9/2009 by April A. Eisman (online).


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Amrita Cheema

She taught nineteenth century German history at the University of Maryland, Bonn, before joining Radio Deutsche Welle's English Service in Cologne.

Anne Allen

Ann Taylor Allen (graduated 1965), professor of German history at the University of Louisville

Berlin–Potsdam–Magdeburg Railway

On 22 December 1939 the worst railway accident in German history occurred at Genthin station, with 278 people killed and another 453 people seriously injured.

Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society

The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa was established in 2001 by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and its chairman, Professor Dres. h.c. Manfred Lahnstein.

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

He was honored by the Nazis as a great national poet, based on occasional antisemitic statements (particularly in Aschenbrödel), and on his nationalistic portrayal of German history, like Die Hermannsschlacht on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Dick Geary

He is specialized in German History, including the German Empire since 1871, the Weimar Republic and Nazism.

Geoff Eley

Eley is particularly well known for his early study, The Peculiarities of German History (first published in German as Mythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung in 1984), co-authored with David Blackbourn (a fellow Briton, who now teaches at Vanderbilt University), which challenged the orthodoxy in German social history known as the Sonderweg thesis.

Gordon A. Craig

He followed this book with studies on the Prussian Army, the Battle of Königgrätz and many aspects of European and German history.

Gordon Craig

Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005), Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history

Hans Rosenberg

His work identified in the power structures and social relations of agrarian society in Prussia the roots of the authoritarian and undemocratic character of what he, with others, took to be the Sonderweg, or special path of modern German history.

Hugstetten rail disaster

With 64 people killed and some 230 seriously injured, it was the deadliest train accident in German history until the collision of two D-Trains at Genthin Railway Station on 21 December 1939, which claimed 278 casualties.

Johannes Wohnseifer

He often draws reference to the German history of his youth, such as the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Red Army Faction.

Marcel Beyer

From early on Beyer, strongly influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French nouveau roman, was a writer of lyric poetry and novels, always taking an idiosyncratic view of German history, in particular the Third Reich era.

Max Keith

Max Keith (pronounced "Kite") was the head of Coca-Cola GmbH, the major bottler of Coca-Cola during the Nazi period of German history.

Michael Stürmer

Michael Stürmer (born September 29, 1938) is a right-wing German historian arguably best known for his role in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s, for his geographical interpretation of German history and for an admiring 2008 biography of the Russian politician Vladimir Putin.

Social history

Modernization theory was presented by Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931- ) and his Bielefeld School as the way to transform "traditional" German history, that is, national political history, centered on a few "great men," into an integrated and comparative history of German society encompassing societal structures outside politics.

Volkstum

Above all, the Prussian archivist Albert Brackmann advocated and led the Gleichschaltung of the Nordostdeutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (Northeast German Research Foundation), which centrally directed research on East German history and controlled numerous projects on the issues of border demarcation and population policy.