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Klemperer, Klemens Von was born on November 2, 1916 in Berlin. Came to the United States, 1938. Son of Herbert O. and Frieda (Kuffner) Von Klemperer.
(This book traces the many efforts of the German Resistanc...)
This book traces the many efforts of the German Resistance to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside Germany. The Allied agencies, notably the British Foreign Office and the U.S. State Department, were ill-prepared to deal with the unorthodox approaches of the Widerstand. Ultimately, the Allies' policy of "absolute silence," the Grand Alliance with the Soviet Union, and the demand for "unconditional surrender" pushed the war to its final denouement, disregarding the German Resistance. Von Klemperer's scholarly and detailed study uncovers the activities and beliefs of numerous individuals who fought against Nazism within Germany. He explores the formation of their policy and analyzes the relations of the Resistance with the Vatican and the ecumenical movement, the intelligence agencies of the Allied powers, and the resistance movements outside Germany. Measured by the conventional standards of diplomacy, the German Resistance to Hitler was a failure. However, von Klemperer shows that many of the principles and strategies of the German Resistance, albeit ignored or overridden by the Allies during wartime, were to find their place in the concerns of international relations in the post-war period.
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The history of modern Germany has all too readily been seen in terms of an historical process that inevitably led to the horrors of National Socialism. As there are no certitudes in life, however, so there are none in German history. In this book, historian Klemens von Klemperer focuses on what he terms the German Incertitudes--namely, the tensions between a realistic acceptance of disenchantment with the modern world, and an insistence upon reenchantment. Exploring this tension through a critical assessment of the ideas and writings of major German thinkers, von Klemperer seeks to account for both the achievements and the failings of German thought, society, and politics as responses to the challenge of modernity in the first half of the 20th century. In addition to individuals such as Nietzsche, Weber, Spengler, Jünger, Bonhoeffer, and Heidegger, the author considers broader movements and ideas such as the concept of Gemeinschaft and the German expressionists, all in the wider context of Western intellectual currents, Rather than belaboring presumed German deviance from the European norms, von Klemperer explores the reasons why the sense of crisis in the face of modernity was singularly acute among Germans, he traces a spectrum of reactions extending from an acceptance of modern disenchantment to the quest for reenchantment which found an extreme manifestation in National Socialism.
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Klemperer, Klemens Von was born on November 2, 1916 in Berlin. Came to the United States, 1938. Son of Herbert O. and Frieda (Kuffner) Von Klemperer.
Abitur, Französisches Gymnasium, Berlin, 1934. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1949.
Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1974.
Visiting professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1960; professor of history, Bonn U., Federal Republic Germany, 1963-1964; L. Clark Seelye professor of history, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1960-1987; professor emeritus, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, since 1987. Visiting professor Amherst (Massachusetts) College, 1989, 91, 96. Visiting fellow Trinity College, Oxford, England, 1982.
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( The history of modern Germany has all too readily been ...)
(This book traces the many efforts of the German Resistanc...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member American History Society (chairman conference group for central European history 1982-1983) Clubs: Century (New York City).
Married Elizabeth Lee Gallaher, December 19, 1953. Children— Catharine Lee, James Alfred.