"Present-Day Germany – the Heart (and Thorn in the Side) of Europe"
Dr. Martin Jander


Modern German history is a useful vantage point for exploring European developments during the 20th century. This lecture will take a look at the German and European contest(s) between democracy and dictatorship and the related tension between freedom and security in changing times under different political regimes up to the present day. Given the profound and paradoxical impact which Germany has had on the trajectories of European history, which role can it, does it, and perhaps must it play in Europe today because of lessons learned from its past and its multiple transformations?


Regular FU-BEST Course: https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/fub...


FU-BEST Online Spring 2021 Course: https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/fub...


Visit http://www.fubest.org to learn more about the program or http://www.fubest.org/online for the schedule of our digital lecture series.


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Chapters
00:00 Intro to the Digital Lecture Series
01:50 Beginning of the lecture
04:18 Berlin after 1945
06:41 Berlin as a resource
08:59 Imperial Germany (1871-1918)
20:33 Citizenship Law (1913)
23:12 An unfinished project of modernity?
25:55 Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
29:03 Albert Einstein in Berlin
41:22 Shoah
47:03 "Zivilisationsbruch" (Breaking Civilization)
49:54 Liberation and Divided Germany (1945-1989/90)
56:03 Cold War
01:00:44 GDR's Secret Police
01:01:59 Development of Eastern Europe during the Cold War
01:05:07 Collapse of the GDR
01:08:11 Closing remarks
01:15:06 Outro