Reshaping the Right: Radical Nationalism and the German Navy League, 1898–1908

Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory : Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century

“…11 We proceed with three transnational initiatives developed by civil society actors since the 1950s that cover a broad range of ideas, instruments, and attempts of dealing with the atrocities committed under the National Socialist Regime. More precisely, these are attempts at Franco-German rapprochement and reconciliation in the ecclesial domain in the 1950s, 12 attempts at reconciliation between Germans and the French town Oradour-sur-Glane from around 1950 up to today, 13 and the already mentioned study on Aktion Sühnezeichen, founded in the late 1950s in the Federal Republic of Germany. 14 We furthermore included more recent ex- 12 See the contribution by Ulrike Schröber to this volume.…”

“…14 We furthermore included more recent ex- 12 See the contribution by Ulrike Schröber to this volume. 13 See the contribution by Andrea Erkenbrecher to this volume.…”

“…They were committed to take all steps to ensure that the German government pays this debt, and also to struggle against all those efforts to overthrow the Weimar Republic and to resurrect the imperialist principles of the pre-war period." 13 Here was the opening Cassin had hoped for: a public commitment by German and Austrian veterans to accept the terms of the peace treaty and to work together with their former enemies on matters of mutual interest. Deeds, to be sure, had to follow words, and Cassin expressed a certain reserve in reporting to French veterans what had happened in Geneva.…”

“…Although the First World War witnessed a refashioning of the international legal field, the Peace Palace continued to embody that depoliticized vision of 'Peace through Justice' where culture and conciliation provided the surest foundations for a Europe of perpetual peace. 13 The community of international law had long positioned itself defiantly above politics. Just as civilizational discourse had demarcated membership in the society of sovereign states, so had social class provided the shared cultural sensibility that structured the rules for participation in the international legal field.…”

“…The publication of the letter to Wilson in 1919, as well as of a programmatic statement the previous year demanding official acknowledgment of the Armenian massacre and support for the founding of an Armenian nation-state in German foreign policy, 13 cost Wegner his position as editor of…”