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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
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Excellent book. Sometimes hard to keep track of everything as the author packs so much in but that’s a very minor criticism.
To begin with, I think the author was limited by what he could do due to the nature of how this was a "shortest history book". The first 70 pages go through 1500 years of German history and the next 160 are of Germany from 1525 to now which creates a lopsided feel and sometimes left me a little lost. However, the part four was excellent covering how in history and today there is still a tension between a Western European tilted western Germany and a pro-Russia and extreme East Elbian Germany that still is possesed by the ghost of Prussia. I feel like this book would be greater if it was treated more as a short history of modern Germany from perhaps the 1500s to now, even though the early linguistics and Roman past were interesting and important to the greater German history.
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Okay, so...
I liked that the author covered so much history and the graphs, pictures, etc made it easier to understand. His sectioning was also reasonable.
However, I don't agree with his main thesis and think there's no real point in trying to devide the German nation into East and West (and South) Germans to a point where all evil comes from the east and even to this day, germany would be better off without it. Idk imo a dangerous thought to plant into peoples head especially with how weakly he arguments it.
He tries to apply this thesis to everything - literally everything - in his book and it gets boring and is repetitive and often, it doesn't make sense.
He also left out pretty important events imo, like the dolchstoßlegende, which was a pretty important part of the whole 'hitler/NSDAP chapter' of German history and generally, i think he brushed over some really important topics too fast.
All in all, it was nice to see all these historic events put into order, as I had learned about most of them at school but never in order, but his conclusion was pretty weak to me.
I liked that the author covered so much history and the graphs, pictures, etc made it easier to understand. His sectioning was also reasonable.
However, I don't agree with his main thesis and think there's no real point in trying to devide the German nation into East and West (and South) Germans to a point where all evil comes from the east and even to this day, germany would be better off without it. Idk imo a dangerous thought to plant into peoples head especially with how weakly he arguments it.
He tries to apply this thesis to everything - literally everything - in his book and it gets boring and is repetitive and often, it doesn't make sense.
He also left out pretty important events imo, like the dolchstoßlegende, which was a pretty important part of the whole 'hitler/NSDAP chapter' of German history and generally, i think he brushed over some really important topics too fast.
All in all, it was nice to see all these historic events put into order, as I had learned about most of them at school but never in order, but his conclusion was pretty weak to me.
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Wenn man 2000 Jahre auf knapp 300 Seiten zusammenpressen muss, dürfte das hier vorgefundene Resultat schon sehr nah dran sein am Potenzial einer solchen Arbeit. Als Überblickswerk sehr gut, denn es geht nicht zu sehr in die Tiefe und überfordert damit dann Laien wie mich nicht - stattdessen gibt's viele Denkanstöße für weitere Recherchen.
Der politische Bias, gerade im letzten Drittel, war aber schon deutlich erkennbar. Ich würde seinen Schlussfolgerungen nicht mal nicht zustimmen wollen, weil ich es selbst nicht besser weiß... Aber aus Erfahrung lässt sich sagen, dass es selten so schwarz-weiß ist, wie von Hawes dargestellt wird.
Unterm Strich bleibt ein insgesamt positiver Gesamteindruck dank des hauptsächlich historischen ersten Teils und ein irritierender Beigeschmack für den letzten.
Der politische Bias, gerade im letzten Drittel, war aber schon deutlich erkennbar. Ich würde seinen Schlussfolgerungen nicht mal nicht zustimmen wollen, weil ich es selbst nicht besser weiß... Aber aus Erfahrung lässt sich sagen, dass es selten so schwarz-weiß ist, wie von Hawes dargestellt wird.
Unterm Strich bleibt ein insgesamt positiver Gesamteindruck dank des hauptsächlich historischen ersten Teils und ein irritierender Beigeschmack für den letzten.
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a solid overview of german history. not too into depth, but it’s a great starting point to discover new topics to read more into.