Vol. 20 · No. 4 · Issue 65 · Winter 2002

Tobias Brinkmann
Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture,
University of Leipzig, Germany

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Abstract

Dieter Gosewinkel, Einbürgern und Ausschließen. Die Nationalisierung der Staatsangehörigkeit vom Deutschen Bund bis zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001)

Daniel Levy, Yfaat Weiss, ed., Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002)

Barbara Marshall, The New Germany and Migration in Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)

Jan Motte, Rainer Ohliger, Anne von Oswald, ed., 50 Jahre Bundesrepublik - 50 Jahre Einwanderung: Nachkriegsgeschichte als Migrationsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 1999)

David Rock and Stefan Wolff, ed., Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic since 1945 (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002)

Stefan Wolff, ed., German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000)

The period from 1989 through 1991 constituted a watershed in twentieth-century German and European history. The rapid collapse of the communist regimes in east central Europe, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the devastating war in Yugoslavia, which lasted throughout the 1990s and brought the post-World War II order to an end, evoking memories of the destruction of the pre-1914 Imperial order in central and eastern Europe during and after the Great War.