Detlev Peukert (1950-1990) was a communist German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history. Peukert taught modern history at the University of Essen and served as director of the Research Institute for the History of the Nazi Period. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Selection at the Auschwitz ramp in 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor or for medical experimentation. ... Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. ... ...
Peukert was a leading expert in Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) and his work often examined the impact of Nazi social policies on ordinary Germans, and on targeted groups such as the Jews. In addition, Peukert was one of the first German historians, indeed one of the first historians anywhere to make a detailed examination of the persecution of the Roma by the Nazis. Peukert often compared Nazi policies towards the Roma with Nazi policies towards the Jews. Tzigane redirects here; for the composition by Maurice Ravel, see Tzigane (Ravel). ...
Peukert also often wrote on the social and cultural history of the Weimar Republic, whose problems he saw as more severe examples of the problems of modernity in general. Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. ... Cultural history, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. ... Flag of Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 Coat of arms The Weimar Republic (German Weimarer Republik, IPA: []) is the historical name for the republic that governed Germany from 1919 to 1933. ... Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being Modern. Since the term Modern is used to describe a wide range of periods, modernity must be taken in context. ...
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Reihen fest geschlossen : Beiträge zur Geschichte des Alltags unterm Nationalsozialismus co-edited with Jürgen Reulecke & Adelheid Gräfin zu Castell Rudenhausen, Wuppertal : Hammer, 1981.
Volksgenossen und Gemeinschaftsfremde: Anpassung, Ausmerze und Aufbegehren unter dem Nationalsozialismus Cologne: Bund Verlag, 1982, translated into English by Richard Deveson as Inside Nazi Germany : conformity, opposition and racism in everyday life London : Batsford, 1987 ISBN 071345217X.
Die Weimarer Republik : Krisenjahre der Klassischen Moderne, Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987 translated into English as The Weimar Republic : the crisis of classical modernity, New York : Hill and Wang, 1992 ISBN 0809096749.
“The Genesis of the `Final Solution’ from the Spirit of Science” pages 234-252 from Reevaluating the Third Reich edited by Thomas Childers and Jane Caplan, New York: Holmes & Meier, 1994 ISBN 0841911789. The German original was published as "Die Genesis der 'Endloesung' aus dem Geist der Wissenschaft," in Max Webers Diagnose der Moderne, ed. Detlev Peukert (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989), pp. 102-21. ISBN 3525335628.
DetlevPeukert (1950-1990) was a communist German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history.
Peukert taught modern history at the University of Essen and served as director of the Research Institute for the History of the Nazi Period.
DetlevPeukert (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1989), pp.
Peukert is also very suspicious of the claim that the unreasonably high and burdening levels of the post-war foreign-imposed financial reparations and other stipulations of the Versailles Treaty hindered all attempts at the country's economic and political recovery (42-46).
Peukert states that, in the final analysis, nothing was predestined, every failure and crisis could have been overcome, and the cause of republicanism and the ideal of parliamentary democracy were certainly not hopelessly and automatically doomed to failure.
Peukert stresses the political and moral responsibility of the moderate rightists and conservatives (the Catholic centre, the DNVP), and the far-reaching consequences of their decision in the early 1930s to opt for authoritarianism, paralyze the parliamentary structures and procedures, and thereby revoke modernity and return to the pre-WWI value systems.
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