tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10850687.post4955246776650276575..comments2023-11-02T13:39:05.582+02:00Comments on peromanesteā¢: despre responsabilitatea presidentiala vs. "vina" de tzaraperomanestehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18138498600151502565noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10850687.post-75253078525309944342009-09-26T00:18:48.358+03:002009-09-26T00:18:48.358+03:00Doua carti despre ce si cum in Germania
The Origi...Doua carti despre ce si cum in Germania<br /><br />The Origin of the West German Republic. By Peter H. Merkl. Oxford University Press, 1963.<br /><br /><br />After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995. By Konrad H. Jarausch. Oxford University Press, 2006.<br /><br /><br />The Federal Republic was Germany's first successful democracy. Its success rested on two pillars, institutional and cultural. First, after World War II, the West Germans, aligned with the West, established political structures that avoided many of the pitfalls of the Weimar constitution. How order was created out of chaos in occupied Germany is comprehensively documented in Peter Merkl's unmatched account of the period. Second, German political culture was transformed. This is the subject of Konrad Jarausch's compelling overview of the development of a democratic political culture in the Federal Republic. During the occupation and the years immediately following, democracy was imposed on a defeated and passive population, but later the citizens of the Federal Republic fully embraced democracy as their own. In the rebellious 1960s, younger Germans questioned the rationalizations for obedience proffered by their parents and grandparents. The 1980s saw the Historikerstreit (historian's quarrel), a public debate among German intellectuals on the nature of the Holocaust and its meaning for Germany. In response to an attempt by right-wing historians to diminish the significance of the Holocaust, opinion leaders and citizens came to embrace the difficult truth about the past and acknowledged that it created a special ethic of responsibility. This period formed the Germany that we know today, with its strong commitment to human rights, a European identity, and an aversion to the use of military force. The period since 1989, in turn, has been marked by problems associated with reintegrating the two German states and sporadic violence directed at non-German immigrants.peromanestehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138498600151502565noreply@blogger.com