Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany, 1770-1968

Abstract

1. Introduction: Generation conflict and German history 1770-1968 Mark Roseman 2. The ideal of youth in late 18th-century Germany Joachim Whaley 3. Young Germans and Young Germany: some remarks on the history of German youth in the late 18th and in the first half of the 19th century Rainer Elkar 4. The battle for the young: mobilising young people in Wilhelmine Germany Jurgen Reulecke 5. Jewish politics and generation conflict in Wilhelmine Germany Jacob Borut 6. The 'Front Generation' and the politics of Weimar Germany Richard Bessel 7. The 'New Woman' and generation conflict: perceptions of young women's sexual mores in the Weimar Republic Cornelie Usborne 8. Generations of German historians: patronage, censorship and the containment of generation conflict, 1918-45 Peter Lambert 9. Gender, generation and politics: young protestant women in the final years of the Weimar Republic Elizabeth Harvey 10. The Hitler Youth generation and its role in the two post-war German states Alexander von Plato 11. The BDM generation: a female generation in transition from dictatorship to democracy Dagmar Reese 12. A generation twice betrayed: youth policy in the transition from the Third Reich to the Soviet Zone of Occupation 1945-6 Michael Buddrus 13. The generation that never was: young labour in the Ruhr mining industry 1945-57 Mark Roseman 14. The German Kriegskinder. Origins and impact of the generation of 1968 Heinz Bude.