The Late Modern and contemporary era from the end of the 19th century to today.
By Mark Weber ∙ February 15, 1999
Germany is not the country it once was. On the positive side, Germans today are more prosperous and have more free time than ever. For some years now, the Bonn republic has led the world in non-working time. But todays Germans also differ from their grandparents and great-grandparents in other, more ominous ways. The people…
By Daniel W. Michaels ∙ May 1, 1997
Daniel W. Michaels is a retired Defense Department analyst who lives in Washington, DC. After graduating in 1954 from Columbia University (Phi Beta Kappa), he studied in Tübingen, Germany (1957), with a Fulbright scholarship. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991–1992, and the end of the centrally controlled “command economy,” a new class…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
For many years it has endured as a particularly striking example of the demeaning, racist way that Chinese were treated in their own country during the early decades of this century. At a time when Europeans, and especially the British, dominated much of China, a sign at the entrance to the Huangpu Park in Shanghai…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
“Militaristic” Germany? As this recent Canadian newspaper chart shows, the notion that Germany has been a particularly warlike country is a myth. Of the 278 wars fought by Europeans between 1480 and 1940, Germany was involved in only eight percent. The most “warlike” countries were England, France and Spain. (This information is also given in…
By Ernst Zündel ∙ September 1, 1995
Ernst Zündel, a German-Canadian publisher and civil rights activist, lives in Toronto. Born in 1939 in southwest Germany, where he was raised, he migrated to Canada at the age of 19. He attracted international notoriety during the first and second “Holocaust trials” in Toronto, 1985 and 1988. In August 1992 Canada's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
These are trying days for Russia. The privations and sufferings endured by her people are all the more tragic because this is a potentially wealthy and powerful nation with a long and proud history. Contrary to the optimistic hopes and expectations of so many, the swift collapse of Communist Party rule in 1991-1992, and the…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
America's image today of Benito Mussolini and his Italian Fascist regime is, to a considerable extent, a product of Second World War propaganda. The wartime image of the Duce (leader) as a clownish bully remains largely intact to this day. But this was not always so. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Mussolini and Fascist…
By James Joseph Martin ∙ January 1, 1977
James J. Martin graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1942 and received his M.A. (1945) and Ph.D. (1949) degrees in history from the University of Michigan. His teaching career has spanned 25 years and involved residence at educational institutions from coast to coast. Dr. Martin's books have included the two-volume classic, American Liberalism…
By Yuri N. Maltsev ∙ January 1, 1995
Yuri N. Maltsev, a native of Russia, escaped from the Soviet Union a few years before its downfall. He is associate professor of economics at Carthage College (Kenosha, Wise.), and a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn, Ala. 36849-5301). This essay is reprinted from the Nov. 1994 issue of The Free Market,…
By Andrew Gray ∙ January 1, 1995
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent, by Timothy Garton Ash. New York: Random House, 1993. 680 pages. $27.50. ISBN 0394-55711-5. “Ende gut, alles gut” (“All's well that end's well”). What more can one say of the tortuous decades that led to German unification. A lot, of course, and Timothy Garton Ash says it…
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