Before 1989, Germans used the term Wende (the tum) to refer to the transition from the Schmidt to the Kohl government in 1981-82. This meaning disappeared overnight between November 9 and 10, 1989. The real Wende became the revolution in the GDR and the subsequent unification of the two Germanys. Doubtless this shift in meaning was justified. By October 1990, Germany had experienced far more than a change in political leadership. It now had new expanded borders, 17 million new citizens, and a mountain of challenges to overcome
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 199...
In 1990, Germany once again became a reunited country after the collapse of the socialistic German D...
The Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has experienced a remarkably fast rise to state, federal, an...
Despite being one of Europe's most significant destinations for migration, Germany has long wrestled...
In recent years the question whether Germany was or was not a country of immigration became the bone...
Starting in the 1960s, Germany experienced a surge in immigration, predominantly from Turkey. These ...
In this article, the history of emigration from Germany and the immigration to Germany especially in...
After forty years of separation, neither the West Germans nor the East Germans were prepared for the...
This article examines tensions between the transnational realities of the extensive forced migration...
textIn the years immediately following the 1990 reunification of Germany, an increase in anti-foreig...
One-fifth of the postwar West German population consisted of German refugees expelled from the forme...
Nietzsche once commented that it is typically German to ask what it is to be German (McFalls 1995:14...
The paper starts out from the recent statement by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that multicult...
79 pagesIncreased migration into Europe in the summer of 2015 signified a shift in how the European ...
During Angela Merkel’s time as Germany’s Chancellor, the country has seen the largest inflow of migr...
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 199...
In 1990, Germany once again became a reunited country after the collapse of the socialistic German D...
The Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has experienced a remarkably fast rise to state, federal, an...
Despite being one of Europe's most significant destinations for migration, Germany has long wrestled...
In recent years the question whether Germany was or was not a country of immigration became the bone...
Starting in the 1960s, Germany experienced a surge in immigration, predominantly from Turkey. These ...
In this article, the history of emigration from Germany and the immigration to Germany especially in...
After forty years of separation, neither the West Germans nor the East Germans were prepared for the...
This article examines tensions between the transnational realities of the extensive forced migration...
textIn the years immediately following the 1990 reunification of Germany, an increase in anti-foreig...
One-fifth of the postwar West German population consisted of German refugees expelled from the forme...
Nietzsche once commented that it is typically German to ask what it is to be German (McFalls 1995:14...
The paper starts out from the recent statement by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that multicult...
79 pagesIncreased migration into Europe in the summer of 2015 signified a shift in how the European ...
During Angela Merkel’s time as Germany’s Chancellor, the country has seen the largest inflow of migr...
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 199...
In 1990, Germany once again became a reunited country after the collapse of the socialistic German D...
The Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has experienced a remarkably fast rise to state, federal, an...