For the great majority of Germans, the 20th century was a time of massive disruptions and discontinuities, marked by drastic changes of regime, periodic economic catastrophes, hugely destructive ...

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Ritschl: That may be, but during the 20th century, Germany was responsible for what were the biggest national bankruptcies in recent history. It is only thanks to the United States, which ...

Twentieth Century German Poetry, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40 (511pp) ISBN 978-0-374-10535-8. This handsome, hearty, duel-language volume will vastly expand what most American readers know of ...

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on 20th-century German literature. Share. Resize. Berlin Alexanderplatz . By Alfred Döblin (1929) ...

Katie: At the beginning of the 20th century, Germany was a fairly newly formed nation. All its twenty-five previously independent states had been unified in 1871.

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“On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most inhumane and brutal conditions ...

Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. By Jochen Bittner Contributing Opinion Writer HAMBURG, Germany — It may well ...