By Eduard Mu?hle

How did German society understand the eu East in the course of the brief 20th century? What have been the psychological maps Germans built as their photographs of the ecu East? How did those pictures modify through the years as a result of altering political platforms and to what volume did these psychological perceptions impact political motion and the connection among Germany and japanese Europe?Tackling questions reminiscent of those, this ebook appears to be like on the complex dating among Germany and the eu East. Politically major, this courting used to be usually fraught with pressure, regularly soft and not effortless. The publication seems on the social, cultural and political contexts that formed the German picture of the East through the Weimar Republic, the 3rd Reich and the Federal Republic. furthermore, it charts the psychological maps that German society built with appreciate to unmarried constituent components of jap Europe, similar to Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic States and the Soviet Union.The participants examine how the connection used to be reworked from considered one of hostility to 1 extra conciliatory in personality through the tip of the 20th century.

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But the Weimar Republic also had a counter-image and a counterworld – the camp of the pro-Soviets. Since this openness towards Russia combined with the theme that dominated all foreign and domestic policy, at least in the early years of the new state – the struggle against the ‘the Diktat of Versailles’ – the impression could sometimes arise that this closeness had replaced the enmity that had existed before and during the Great War. Of course, we should not overlook the pragmatic motives behind a large and probably the largest part of this friendship.

The usual understanding of perception seems to me to be too (literally) superficial to extend to hidden additional dimensions. Ideologically, of course, it is hard to imagine a greater contrast than that between Soviet Communism and National Socialism. The term mentalities takes us much further here, since mentalities are shaped on a much deeper level prior to all conscious and intentional expressions. Mentalities can resemble each other in all essential aspects, despite differences of detail, and, as is of course my point, this can have to do with synchronous proximity and with the fact that their bearers belong to the same historical context.

1928). That this was not sufficient was mainly due to the instability and failure of the Weimar Republic; the fault did not lie in Stresemann’s foreign policy concept. Hence, he had to combine and balance highly divergent interests in international and domestic politics; for instance, those of the other European states with those of German foreign policy, the consolidation of the Republic and the parliamentary system with the tribulations of his country. He also needed to placate German nationalism and to reeducate the Germans in order to make their nationalism compatible with international understanding and republican principles.

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