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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Margarete Myers Feinstein. State Symbols: The Quest for Legitimacy in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949–1959. (Studies in Central European Histories.) Boston: Brill. 2001. Pp. xxiii, 255.

The basic question asked in this book by Margarete Myers Feinstein is suggested in the subtitle. In 1949, two new German states, one capitalist and one communist, were created on territory that between 1871 and 1945 had been part of a larger, unified Germany. Defeat in World War II had destroyed and discredited the National Socialist regime but also called into question other parts of a common German history, such as its military, imperial, and administrative traditions. To survive and prosper, presumably both successor states needed to convince their citizens and those of neighboring states of their legitimacy. Moreover, each German state denied the legitimacy of the other. So how might the legitimacy of a state be established?

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