Stern, Fritz (Fritz Richard) 1926-2016 creator text biography nyu New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 1st ed. monographic eng

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546 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past. Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West and East Germanys, and the unified country after 1990. Through his engagement with the nation from which he and his family fled, he shows that the tumultuous history of Germany, alternately the strength and the scourge of Europe, offers political lessons for citizens everywhere―especially those facing or escaping from tyranny. In this wise, tough-minded, and subtle book, Stern, himself a passionately engaged citizen, looks beyond Germany to issues of political responsibility that concern everyone. Five Germanys I Have Known vindicates his belief that, at its best, history is our most dramatic introduction to a moral civic life. Ancestral Germany -- Weimar -- The Third Reich -- The terror from afar -- When there was no Germany -- The Federal Republic: new beginnings -- The fourth and forgotten Germany -- German themes in foreign lands -- The German question revisited -- Unified Germany: a second chance? Fritz Stern. Includes index. e-gx--- Stern, Fritz 1926-2016 Stern, Fritz (Fritz Richard) 1926-2016 Historians Germany History 20th century Historiadores Alemania Siglo XX Germany History 20th century Alemania Historia Siglo XX 302 DD 86.7 S839f 2006 943.087092 9780374155407 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374155402 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2006000060 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2006000060.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006000060-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006000060-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006000060-s.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2006000060.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006000060-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006000060-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006000060-s.html DLC 060104 20240902152117.0 14218366 eng