By David Blackbourn

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This historical past deals a strong and unique account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the top of worldwide warfare One.

• Written via a number one German historian who has reworked the historiography of recent Germany over the last decades.
• Covers the entire of the lengthy 19th century and emphasizes continuities via this period.
• Brings jointly political, social and cultural history.
Combines a finished account with a think for the human size and the historical past of daily life.
• available to non-specialists, thought-provoking and entertaining.

The updated moment edition features a revised bibliography.

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225-226. According i-o Weit, who was Gomuzka" interpreter in 1950s and 19Ms, these farmer Nazis were even more loyal to Utbricht because he could use their past to incriminate them. 44. ;in Easter~zEzrrope, 1944-1 949 (Boulider: Weshriew Press, 2997), p. 34; see also GIos Ludzr, May '7,1946, p. 5. 45. The SD, along with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) and the United Peasant Party (ZSL), collaborated with the PPK in the provisianal government. 46. Glos Ludzl, June 30, 1946, pp. 3-44 8; see atso Strobel, Deutscfrlar~d-Polerz: Wtinsclt ir nd Wirklichkeif,p.

For centuries, Poles had resisted the German D u a ~ ~Nach g Ostmz and Russian expansionism, Polish national, identity was linked to the early modem commonwealth that stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Blaek Sea and i t s heroic struggles against Che Germans, hssians, and Swedes, Poland stood as a Catholic outpost between Prussian Protestantism a d hssian Orthodoxy, but the weak Polish state finally succllmbed to the late eighteenth-century partition between Prussia, Austria, and Russia, Polmd" resurrection after World War I lasted less than a generation: Germany and the Swiet Union overrm the Polish state in September 19339.

Because the KPD and the SPU were bitter enemies during the Weimar period, the KPD initially spzlrned cooperdion with the WD. The Soviet occupation authorities forced the KPD and SPD to form the Socialist Unity Party (SEU) fn April 1946. The other parties fn the anti-fascist Natiolzal Front, the CDU m d the ZJRP, were also coopted. After the elections of October 1946, in which the SED fared poorly in competi"cion with the SPD in Berlin, the Soviets no longer dlowed h e elections in its zone* The Soviets did not immediately hand.

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