The New Europe 1933-1945: German Thought Patterns About Europe

The term Europe has not always been understood in the same way. Depending on the period and influenced by the dominant interpreting elites at the time, it was always different features that were emphasised, new traditions that were discovered and created, and different values specific to the period that were claimed as European. Europe is a construct. That is as true today as in the period before 1945. This monograph focuses on ‘Sachbucher’ (non-fiction books), travelogues and literary-political writings by eight authors who played a key role in the discourse on Europe in the Third Reich and also partly in the early German Federal Republic.