Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

Conference Group for Central European History Session 3
Radicalizing the Nation: The Impact of the First World War on German Nationalism and Political Culture

Omni Shoreham, Embassy Room

Chair: William S. Allen, State University of New York at Buffalo
Papers:

“Bismarck come back!” “Bismarck stay home!”: The Role of the Bismarck Image in German Political Culture in the Wake of the First World War, 1918–23
Richard Frankel, Western Michigan University

The Racial Lessons of a Lost War: The Pan-German League, the German Right, and the Transformation of Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic, 1918–23
Barry A. Jackisch, Gannon University

“ They Place their Greatest Hope in Russia”: Revolution, Demobilization, and Political Culture in Munich, 1917–21
Adam R. Seipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Comment: Raffael Scheck, Colby College