2005, ISBN: 9780199327034

One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts in Berkeley or New York. In the US, the bab… Mehr…

One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts in Berkeley or New York. In the US, the baby boomers grew up in the shadow of what Tom Brokaw called the greatest generation. In its place, Germanyhad the so-called Auschwitz generation. What became known in Germany as the ''68 generation'' or just the Achtundsechziger had grown up knowing that their mothers and fathers were directly or indirectly responsible for Nazism and in particular for the Holocaust. Germany''s 1968 generation did not merely dream of a better world as some of their contemporaries in other countries did; they felt compelled to act to save Germany from itself. It was an all-or-nothing choice: Utopia or Auschwitz. Kundnani shows that the struggle of Germany''s ''68 generation also hada darker side. Although the ''Achtundsechziger'' imagined their struggle against capitalism in West Germany as ''resistance'' against Nazism, they also had a tendency to see Auschwitz everywhere and, by using images and metaphors connected with Nazism to describe events in other parts of the world, theyrelativized Nazism and in particular the Holocaust. Even more disturbingly, despite the anti-fascist rhetoric of the ''Achtundsechziger'', there were also anti-Semitic and nationalist currents in the West German New Left that grew out of the student movement. Utopia or Auschwitz traces the political journey of Germany''s post-war generation and examinesthe influence that its ambivalent attitude to the Nazi past had on the foreign policy of the ''red-green'' government between 1998 and 2005, which included several former members of the student movement like Joschka Fischer. The red-green government''s schizophrenic foreign policy, manifested itsresponse to the crises in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, reflected the 1968 generation''s ambivalent attitude to the Nazi past. | Utopia or Auschwitz by Hans Kundnani Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History P10103, Hans Kundnani<

2005, ISBN: 9780199327034

One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts in Berkeley or New York. In the US, the bab… Mehr…

One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts in Berkeley or New York. In the US, the baby boomers grew up in the shadow of what Tom Brokaw called the greatest generation. In its place, Germanyhad the so-called Auschwitz generation. What became known in Germany as the ''68 generation'' or just the Achtundsechziger had grown up knowing that their mothers and fathers were directly or indirectly responsible for Nazism and in particular for the Holocaust. Germany''s 1968 generation did not merely dream of a better world as some of their contemporaries in other countries did; they felt compelled to act to save Germany from itself. It was an all-or-nothing choice: Utopia or Auschwitz. Kundnani shows that the struggle of Germany''s ''68 generation also hada darker side. Although the ''Achtundsechziger'' imagined their struggle against capitalism in West Germany as ''resistance'' against Nazism, they also had a tendency to see Auschwitz everywhere and, by using images and metaphors connected with Nazism to describe events in other parts of the world, theyrelativized Nazism and in particular the Holocaust. Even more disturbingly, despite the anti-fascist rhetoric of the ''Achtundsechziger'', there were also anti-Semitic and nationalist currents in the West German New Left that grew out of the student movement. Utopia or Auschwitz traces the political journey of Germany''s post-war generation and examinesthe influence that its ambivalent attitude to the Nazi past had on the foreign policy of the ''red-green'' government between 1998 and 2005, which included several former members of the student movement like Joschka Fischer. The red-green government''s schizophrenic foreign policy, manifested itsresponse to the crises in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, reflected the 1968 generation''s ambivalent attitude to the Nazi past. | Utopia or Auschwitz by Hans Kundnani Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Baby > History P10103, Hans Kundnani<

2005, ISBN: 9780199327034

Presents a concise history of the German Left since the 1960s. This book traces the political journey of Germany's post-war generation and examines the influence that its ambivalent attit… Mehr…

Presents a concise history of the German Left since the 1960s. This book traces the political journey of Germany's post-war generation and examines the influence that its ambivalent attitude to the Nazi past had on the foreign policy of the 'red-green' government between 1998 and 2005. Buch, Oxford University Press, USA<

ISBN: 9780199327034

Utopia or Auschwitz Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust Hardcover New Books, Oxford University Press

2009, ISBN: 9780199327034

Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press, USA], Oxford University Press, USA, 2009