Ethnic Minorities in 19th and 20th Century Germany(English, Paperback, Panayi Panikos)

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Ethnic Minorities in 19th and 20th Century Germany(English, Paperback, Panayi Panikos) is written by Panayi Panikos and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0582267609 (ISBN 10) and 9780582267602 (ISBN 13).

This is the first book to trace the history of all ethnic minorities in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It argues that all of the different types of states in Germany since 1800 have displayed some level of hostility towards ethnic minorities. While this reached its peak under the Nazis, the book suggests a continuity of intolerance towards ethnic minorities from 1800 that continued into the Federal Republic. During this long period German states were home to three different types of ethnic minorities in the form of- dispersed Jews and Gypsies; localised minorities such as Serbs, Poles and Danes; and immigrants from the 1880s. Taking a chronological approach that runs into the new Millennium, the author traces the history of all of these ethnic groups, illustrating their relationship with the German government and with the rest of the German populace. He demonstrates that Germany provides a perfect testing ground for examining how different forms of rule deal with minorities, including monarchy, liberal democracy, fascism and communism.