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Author : Joachim Fest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781635425123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Not I written by Joachim Fest and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674688629
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic written by Edward Ross Dickinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Dickinson traces the story of German child welfare policy over an extended period of conflict and compromise among competing groups-progressive social reformers, conservative Protestants, Catholics, Social Democrats, feminists, medical men, jurists, and welfare recipients themselves.
Author : Patricia Anne Simpson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271087404
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Play World written by Patricia Anne Simpson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys—among them a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus figures—as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies, children’s almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys, Simpson’s argument follows a compelling path toward understanding the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national, and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe, that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.
Author : Dirk Schumann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845459994
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child' written by Dirk Schumann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century, declared at its start to be the “Century of the Child” by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood, research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S. and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private and the public spheres intersected, on notions of “race” and “ethnicity,” “normality” and “deviance,” and on the impact of wars and changes in political regimes.
Author : Ernestine Bradley
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400076064
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Way Home written by Ernestine Bradley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Bavaria during World War II, Ernestine Bradley came to know wartime dislocations and food shortages, along with the challenges of taking care of her siblings while her mother was ill. The men of her hometown were away at war, but their absence created an exciting unexpected freedom–a freedom she sought again at 21 when she became a stewardess, moved to New York and went on to marry a shy basketball star who played for the New York Knicks. Yet the paradoxes of her childhood shaped Bradley’s life. Her hard-won discipline helped her maintain a full-time career as a professor while she commuted weekly to Washington and her husband’s public life; and Germany’s literary response to the holocaust of which she had been unaware became her scholarly passion. Cancer confronted her with a personal war, ultimately demanding a vulnerability she had never allowed herself. Frank, warm, and deeply moving, The Way Home is an inspiring American story.
Author : Heinrich Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The English Struwwelpeter written by Heinrich Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ingrid Wood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665574623
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book A German Childhood written by Ingrid Wood and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German Childhood—In the Shadows of World War II is the story of a family in post-war Germany. The author, Ingrid Wood, immigrated to the United States of America at age twenty but kept in close contact with her German family members. More than forty years after moving to America, Ingrid read two books published in her old homeland and had long conversations with a German aunt about the war years. She learned unexpected and surprising facts related to that time. The knowledge shed new light on her childhood in a defeated country. A German Childhood is a testament to the multigenerational resilience, strength, and courage of an ordinary family during extraordinary times in history.
Author : Jana Hensel
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586485597
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (855 download)
Download or read book After the Wall written by Jana Hensel and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its hokey comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and the comforting knowledge that they lived in a Germany unblemished by an ugly Nazi past and a callous capitalist future. Suddenly everything was gone. East Germany disappeared, swallowed up by the West, and in its place was everything Jana and her friends had coveted for so long: designer clothes, pop CDs, Hollywood movies, supermarkets, magazines. They snapped up every possible Western product and mannerism. They changed the way they talked, the way they walked, what they read, where they went. They cut off from their parents. They took English lessons, and opened bank accounts. Fifteen years later, they all have the right haircuts and drive the right cars, but who are they? Where are they going? In After the Wall, Jana Hensel tells the story of her confused generation of East Germans, who were forced to abandon their past and feel their way through a foreign landscape to an uncertain future. Now as they look back, they wonder whether the oppressive, yet comforting life of their childhood wasn't so bad after all.
Author : Joachim Fest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Not I written by Joachim Fest and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Roche
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589179
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Sparta's German Children written by Helen Roche and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta. From older children, from teachers in the classroom, and from higher authority first in Prussia, then in Imperial and National Socialist Germany, came images of Sparta designed to inculcate ideals of endurance, discipline and of military self-sacrifice. Identification with Sparta could also be used to justify ideas of domination over Germany's eastern neighbours. Helen Roche is the first to examine this still sensitive topic systematically and in depth. She collects and analyses official and published German evocations of Sparta but also, and remarkably, reconstructs the experiences of German children taught to be 'little Spartans' in the Prussian Cadet Corps and National Socialist elite schools, the Napolas. In treating the final, and gravest, period of this process, the author has personally collected testimony from numerous surviving German witnesses who attended the Napolas as children in the early 1940s. That testimony is presented here, in a work which is likely to proof definitive, not only for its treasury of new information, but for its elegant - and humane - analysis.
Author : Milton Mayer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652597X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book They Thought They Were Free written by Milton Mayer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.
Author : Jacob Grimm
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811825627
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Caperucita Roja written by Jacob Grimm and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother.
Author : Yascha Mounk
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429953780
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Stranger in My Own Country written by Yascha Mounk and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its past As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the country's past, fawned over him with a forced friendliness he found just as alienating. Vivid and fascinating, Stranger in My Own Country traces the contours of Jewish life in a country still struggling with the legacy of the Third Reich and portrays those who, inevitably, continue to live in its shadow. Marshaling an extraordinary range of material into a lively narrative, Mounk surveys his countrymen's responses to "the Jewish question." Examining history, the story of his family, and his own childhood, he shows that anti-Semitism and far-right extremism have long coexisted with self-conscious philo-Semitism in postwar Germany. But of late a new kind of resentment against Jews has come out in the open. Unnoticed by much of the outside world, the desire for a "finish line" that would spell a definitive end to the country's obsession with the past is feeding an emphasis on German victimhood. Mounk shows how, from the government's pursuit of a less "apologetic" foreign policy to the way the country's idea of the Volk makes life difficult for its immigrant communities, a troubled nationalism is shaping Germany's future.
Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374518440
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Patterns of Childhood written by Christa Wolf and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1984-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Returning to her native town in East Germany forty years later, accompanied by her inquisitive and sometimes demanding daughter, Wolf attempts to recapture her past and to clarify memories of growing up in Nazi Germany. This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg."--
Author : Catherine Bruzzone
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071407809
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book German for Children written by Catherine Bruzzone and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The program introduces children to the excitement of the German language and culture. Includes the cartoon adventures of Super-Katze, a wide range of activities, games, songs and tips for parents and educators on how to help children get the most out of the program.
Author : Zohar Shavit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135880697
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book A Past Without Shadow written by Zohar Shavit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this controversial study of postwar German's children's books, Zohar Shavit reveals a troubling perspective on the German understanding of the Holocaust.
Author : Heidi Hofmann White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book At the Edge of the Storm written by Heidi Hofmann White and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
