Hans Kundnani
Autor/a de The Paradox of German Power
Sobre l'autor
Hans Kundnani is Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and an associate fellow at the Institute for German Studies at Birmingham University.
Obres de Hans Kundnani
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
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Ressenyes
Llistes
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 5
- Membres
- 52
- Popularitat
- #307,430
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 14
- Llengües
- 2
However, although many in the West German student movement imagined their struggle against capitalism as a kind of ex post facto resistance against Nazism, they also had a tendency to relativise the Holocaust. Others, meanwhile, wanted to draw a line under the Nazi past. In fact, despite the anti-fascist rhetoric of the Achtundsechziger, there were also nationalist and anti-Semitic currents in the West German New Left that grew out of the student movement. In short, the 1968 generation had a deeply ambivalent relationship with the Nazi past.
Utopia or Auschwitz explores these contradictory currents as it traces the political journey of Germany’s 1968 generation, via the left-wing terrorism of the seventies and the Social Democrats and Greens in the eighties, to political power in the nineties in the form of the first ever ‘red-green’ government in Germany. It examines the ‘red-green’ government’s foreign policy, in particular its response to the Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq crises, which reflected the 1968 generation’s ambivalent relationship with the Nazi past.… (més)