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	Detlev Peukert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Detlev Peukert (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1989), pp.
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	The Nationalism Project: Book Review: Die Weimarer Republik
		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.
	www.nationalismproject.org /books/bookrevs/Peukert.html (1269 words)

	The Weimar Republic by Detlev Peukert
		Peukert, who died at age 39, was a star of German history of the 20th century, and this book, intended as both a primer and a summary, shows why.
		The radical shifts of Peukert's thought are lucidly rendered in an English as limpid as it is urgent.
		Detlev Peukert's analysis of Weimar Germany exceeds any other in breadth and readability.
	www.book-summary-review.com /The-Weimar-Republic-0809015560.htm (751 words)

	Amazon.ca: Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In this quirky survey of daily life in the Third Reich, Peukert, who teaches at the University of Essen, attempts to help readers "understand better a generation which it would be unjust (and unhelpful for learning lessons for the future) to condemn.
		Peukert looks at the working and middle classes, as well as the youth, and shows how each choose to conform or resist to authority.
		Peukert explains how much of Nazi ideology was in fact borrowed from 19th Century sources.
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	The Weimar Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Unless you are doing graduate-level work on the Weimar era (which I am), stay far away from this book as an intro.
		I'm trying to get my hands on the original German edition, but whether it is the writing or the translation, Peukert's book reads as if it were authored by the illegitimate, illiterate love-child of James Joyce and Henry James.
		Peukert, who died at age 39, was a star of German history of the 20th century, and this book, intended as both a primer and a summary,...
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		He explained that the American energy found in, “Hollywood’s epics or slapstick comedies; ragtime, jazz, or the Charleston,” and, “bobbed, cigarette-smoking, gin-swilling flappers,” was enchanting and inescapable to the war-torn European community, including Germany. This explanation of modernism’s transformation during the era in question greatly enhances the straightforward definition employed by Detlev Peukert.
		As Peukert and Eksteins explain, the United States had been responsible for the establishment of this modernized society in post-war Germany.
		The might of an overseas conqueror, coupled with formidable economic strength, pioneering materialism, and impressive innovation allowed American modernism and culture to permeate the defeated German nation. However, even the might of the overseas conqueror was not enough to allow complete “Americanization” of Germany.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /History/honors/2003/SagonaThesis.doc (7967 words)

	Weimar Republic - J. K. Peukert Detlev - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		In this scholarly and fluent survey, Professor Peukert lays hindsight aside and examines the difficult choices left for a modern society with a tottering economy.
		He considers the clash of generations, the 'New Woman', the loosening class structures, the failures of pioneering welfare schemes, the flourishing of mass culture and intense conflicts between nostalgic traditionalism and 'American' modernity.
		Going beyond the oft-told story of the liberal democracy that succumbed to fascism, Peukert has captured Weimar Germany in its full human complexity.
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		In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a thought-provoking interpretation that not exclusive places Weimar in the history of twentieth-century Germany but also reveals it as an archetype of the ambivalences and pathologies of high-tech developed society.
		I'm disagreeable to get my hands on the novel German edition, but whether it is the writing or the translation, Peukert's book reads as if it were authored by the illegitimate, analphabetic love-child of James Joyce and Henry James.
		The basic shifts of Peukert's thought are lucidly rendered in an English as clear as it is urgent.
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	GER G577 22328 Historical Study of German Literature IV (1900-present) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Another strand, represented by Detlev Peukert’s 1987 Weimar Republik.
		Krisenjahre der klassischen Moderne, use a semantics of crisis to characterize the era in terms of ruptures, rather than constructions, of identity.
		Our main background reading are the texts by Peukert and Lethen—I suggest reading them before the start of the seminar: they will serve as foils and guides, not as direct discussion material during the semester (both are also available in English translation).
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blfal05/ger/ger_g577_22328.html (439 words)

	Nazi-Soviet Comparison Discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Detlev Peukert, "The Working Class: Everyday Life and Opposition"
		Peukert documents much resistance, but also a great deal of sullen withdrawal from public life among German workers in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Keep in mind that the Koenker piece is an article in a collection of articles on "Making Workers Soviet," and that Peukert's is a chapter in his own book on Nazi Germany.
	www.econ.uiuc.edu /~koenker/history301/apr24disc.html (406 words)

	Detlev J K Peukert ; Inside Nazi Germany: Conformaity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, Deutscher Tennis Bund - ...
		Detlev J K Peukert ; Inside Nazi Germany: Conformaity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, Deutscher Tennis Bund - Step By Step Tennis Skills,
		Inside Nazi Germany: Conformaity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life; Detlev J K Peukert
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	The 'Hitler Myth' - Kershaw- Ian/ Wilke- Gerhard/ Peukert- Detlev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 'Hitler Myth' - Kershaw- Ian/ Wilke- Gerhard/ Peukert- Detlev
		The 'Hitler Myth' by Kershaw- Ian/ Wilke- Gerhard/ Peukert- Detlev
		More books by: Ian Kershaw; Detlev Peukert; Gerhard Wilke
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		Weimar Republic - Detlev J. Peukert - Paperback
		The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century.
		In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar in the history of twentieth-century Germany but also reveals it as an archetype of the ambivalences and pathologies of advanced industrial society.
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	History of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.
		Detlev Peukert, The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity.
		Readings: finish All Quiet for discussion; Peukert, Preface and Ch.
	pages.wooster.edu /~dtompkins/RutgersSyllabusWeb.html (323 words)

	::: wood s lot ::: August 1-15, 2002 " (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It certainly seems reasonable to call this erosion of liberties and rights creeping fascism, albeit a postmodern fascism that does not need to rely on mass mobilization for realizing a proto-fascist agenda.
		In one of the most brilliant analyses of everyday life in Nazi Germany, Detlev Peukert devoted a whole chapter to "The Atomization of Everyday Life" (Inside Nazi Germany, pp.
		Combining a form of psychic numbing with political numbing, many Germans just retreated from any public political life and took refuge in their own isolation.
	www.ncf.carleton.ca /~ek867/2002_08_01-15_archives.html (10773 words)

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