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Free Download Community Energy in Germany: A Social Science Perspective
English | 2023 | ISBN: 365839319X | 742 Pages | PDF (True) | 21 MB
In this ground-breaking book, Jörg Radtke offers for the first time within research, a comprehensive insight into the range of organizational structures of community energy projects in Germany and their contribution to the Energiewende. Based on nationwide quantitative survey data and in-depth analyses of selected case studies of solar, wind and geothermal projects, Radtke documents the social structure and motivations of participating citizens. He examines new forms of material participation, community building and co-determination within the mostly volunteer-led community energy projects based on the civic engagement patterns of active "green citizens". The author identifies a new form of individualistic participation and collective modes of action in line with new types of project-oriented participation between business, politics and civil society within sustainability transformation processes of the early 21st century.

Free Download Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 A History of East Germany (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGH6L73, B0BHKSGLND | 2023 | 16 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 454 MB
Author: Katja Hoyer
Narrator: Sam Peter Jackson

Published 5/2023
Created by Nina Shestakova
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 7 Lectures ( 2h 38m ) | Size: 1.23 GB

Published 5/2023
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Language: English | Size: 731.19 MB | Duration: 0h 33m
A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating the German Job Market for Foreigners.

Free Download Anti-Semitism in Germany: The Post-Nazi Epoch from 1945-95 By Werner Bergmann; Rainer Erb
1997 | 395 Pages | ISBN: 1560002700 | PDF | 12 MB
The surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945 marked the end of an epoch during which anti-Semitism escalated into genocide. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi racist ideology was discredited morally and politically, and the Allied occupation forces prohibited its dissemination in public. However, there was no overnight transformation of individual anti-Semitic attitudes among the public at large. Most surveys conducted since 1946 have confirmed the persistence of massive anti-Semitism in Germany both in the democratic West and the communist East. Based on all empirical survey data available up to now, this volume offers a thorough comparative analysis of anti-Semitism in Germany, and in particular its resurgence with the rise of right-wing extremism since unification.Anti-Semitism in Germany reflects a historically unique opportunity to compare the attitudes of two population groups that shared a common history up to 1945 and then lived under differing political conditions until 1989. The authors find distinct generational patterns in the survival and development of anti-Semitic attitudes. In the Federal Republic hostility towards Jews was more manifest among those who had been socialized to it under the Weimar Republic and Third Reich but less prevalent in subsequent generations. In contrast the authors show younger East Germans as more susceptible to anti-Semitism. The economic and cultural crises of reunification underwrote the strident anti-Zionism of the former communist regime. The authors also explore the anti-Semitic component of the recent wave of xenophobic violence and the disturbing rise of neo-Nazi political activity.This volume is especially noteworthy in its examination of a "secondary" anti-Semitism closely tied to the issue of coming to terms with the Nazi past. The motives behind persisting anti-Semitism can no longer be attributed to ethnic conflict, but go to the core discrepancy between wanting to forget and being reminded. The authors consider this phenomenon within the framework of current German political culture. In its comprehensiveness and methodological sophistication, Anti-Semitism in Germany is a major contribution to the literature on modern anti-Semitism and ethnic prejudice. It will be read by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and Jewish studies specialists.

Free Download Katja Hoyer, "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany"
English | ISBN: 1541602579 | 2023 | 496 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the definitive history of East Germany

Free Download A. Gilbert – Germany’s Lightning War. From the Invasion of Poland to El Alamein 1939-1943
MBI Publishing Company | 2000 | ISBN: 0760308454 | English | 262 pages | PDF | 105.78 MB
The Campaigns of World War II

Free Download The Major Brands in Germany 2023: recreate. transform. be resilient. by German Design Council
English | March 23rd, 2023 | ISBN: 3766726137 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 39.76 MB
As Germany’s design and brand authority, the German Design Council strengthens society’s awareness of design and supports companies in all aspects of their brand and design development. In "The Major Brands in Germany 2023", not only the most exciting companies are presented. In addition, Germany’s best brands tell you everything you need to know about this year’s theme "recreate. transform. be resilient.".

Free Download My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Secret History of Modernity by Eric L. Santner
English | April 15, 1996 | ISBN: 0691026289, 0691026270 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 1.6 MB
In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God’s private concubine. Freud’s famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner’s analysis, Schreber’s text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology.

Free Download Embracing Democracy in Modern Germany: Political Citizenship and Participation, 1871-2000 By Michael L. Hughes
2021 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 1350153753 | PDF | 3 MB
Across the modern era, the traditional stereotype of Germans as authoritarian and subservient has faded, as they have become (mostly) model democrats. This book, for the first time, examines 130 years of history to comprehensively address the central questions of German democratization: How and why did this process occur? What has democracy meant to various Germans? And how stable is their, or indeed anyone’s, democracy?Looking at six German regimes across thirteen decades, this study enables you to see how and why some Germans have always chosen to be politically active (even under dictatorships); the enormous range of conceptions of political culture and democracy they have held; and how interactions among various factors undercut or facilitated democracy at different times. Michael L. Hughes also makes clear that recent surges of support for ‘populism’ and ‘authoritarianism’ have not come out of nowhere but are inherent in long-standing contestations about democracy and political citizenship. Hughes argues that democracy – in Germany or elsewhere – cannot be a story of adversity overcome which culminates in a happy ending; it is an ongoing, open-ended process whose ultimate outcome remains uncertain.