Through a series of ten vignettes, this engaging introduction to a fascinating city explores Berlin's historical layers, startling transformations and contested legacies. Mary Fulbrook presents Berlin's distinctive history as rooted…

The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the…

The most commonly asked--and bitterly debated--question about Germans during the Nazi era is, "how much did they know?" Were they aware of what was being committed in their name? As…

This third edition of Mary Fulbrook’s much-admired book provides a clear guide to German history from the early middle ages to the present day. Since the second edition in 2004…

This volume draws together international experts and examines how concepts of citizenship have evolved in different countries and in varying contexts. Britain, Italy, France and Germany are focused on within…

An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the move from the Nazi dictatorship to the communism that succeeded it, looking…

Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence…