Changing States, Changing Selves: Generations in the Third Reich and the GDR

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Author: Fulbrook, Mary

Source: German Monitor, Un-Civilizing Processes? Edited by Mary Fulbrook , pp. 255-294(40)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

The shift from the Third Reich to the GDR provides striking evidence of ways in which radically different forms of society can become 'normalised' within decades. What is particularly extraordinary is that the East German Communist dictatorship was largely sustained by members of the so-called 'Hitler Youth generation', who had earlier apparently been among the most enthusiastic supporters of the Nazi regime. Closer analysis of social generations in twentieth-century Germany suggests a high degree of historical volatility in the character of the 'social self', and poses fundamental challenges to Elias's concept of the 'civilizing process' over the long term.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-04-01