Rudy J Koshar: 2 books
Germany's Transient Pasts
Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Over the course of the twentieth century, Germans have venerated and maintained a variety of historical buildings--from medieval fortresses and cathedrals to urban districts and nineteenth-century working-class housing. But the practice of historic preservation has sometimes proven controversial,...
Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism
Marburg, 1880-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organizational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.