1st Edition
Ethnic Minorities in 19th and 20th Century Germany Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Turks and Others
By Panikos Panayi
Copyright 2000
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first book to trace the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It argues that all of the different types of states in Germany since 1800 have displayed some level of hostility towards ethnic minorities. While this reached its peak under the Nazis, the book suggests a continuity of intolerance towards ethnic minorities from 1800 that... Read more
Chapter 1: Majorities and minorities in German history. Chapter 2: The emergence of the German nation state and the position of Ethnic minorities. Chapter 3: The Kaiserreich, 1871 - 1918: Prejudice, exploitation and full emancipation.
Chapter 4: A liberal interlude? The weimar Republic, 1919-33. Chapter 5: The triumph of the racists: nazism and its consequences. Chapter 6: The age of mass migration: Germanies after 1945. Chapter 7: The new Germany and its minorities. Bibliography. Index.
Chapter 4: A liberal interlude? The weimar Republic, 1919-33. Chapter 5: The triumph of the racists: nazism and its consequences. Chapter 6: The age of mass migration: Germanies after 1945. Chapter 7: The new Germany and its minorities. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Panikos Panayi is Professor of European History at De Montfort University and a leading authority on the history of immigration and ethnicity. His most recent book is the widely acclaimed Spicing Up Britain: The Multicultural History of British Food (2008, 2010).
