Mark E Spicka

Biographic Data

ID1259696
NAMEMark E Spicka
GIVEN NAMESMark E
FAMILY NAMESpicka
SIGNATURESPICKA M E
AFFILIATIONSShippensburg University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Sportfishing and the “Aryanization” of Recreational Space During the Third Reich

    Mark E SpickaARTICLEJournal of Sport History2026

    This article explores how sportfishing became an instrument of the Nazi regime in integrating “Aryans” into the Volksgemeinschaft (racial or national community) through coercive measures and the promise of policies benefitting anglers. Most scholarship on the structure and function of sports in the Third Reich focuses on mass participatory sports or the 1936 Olympic Games. This article shows that leisure activities also played a significant role …

  • West German Cities and the End of Guest Worker Recruitment, 1973-1978

    Mark E SpickaARTICLEGerman Politics & Society2023

    This article examines the response of West German cities to the end of guest worker recruitment in 1973 and to the federal government's implementation of its foreigner policy of "consolidation" in the mid-1970s. It argues that cities critiqued federal policies as failing to address the long-term impact of a permanent migrant population and called for a more comprehensive immigration policy that addressed such a population. Fearing potential socia…

  • The Economic Consequences of the War

    Open AccessMark E SpickaARTICLEGerman History2019

    The Wirtschaftswunder (Economic Miracle), West Germany’s rapid economic growth following the Second World War, enjoys mythical status in German public memory and has proven to be an enduring aspect of the German political and cultural identity. Early scholarship has rooted the origins of this economic boom in the 1948 currency reform; foreign aid, chiefly through the Marshall Plan; the creation of an international trading regime that particularly…

  • Guest Workers, Social Order, and West German Municipalities, 1960–7

    Open AccessMark E SpickaARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2018Cited by: 1

    This article examines the response of West German cities and their main political pressure group, the Deutsche Städtetag (DST, The German Council of Municipalities) to the arrival of guest workers between 1960–7. It argues that unlike the federal government, almost all city authorities quickly understood that a portion of the guest workers would remain permanently in West Germany. As a result, the DST and most cities called for some form of guest…

  • Faktor Freude

    Mark E Spicka, Mark SpickaARTICLEGerman History2017

    The boundary between work and private life has become ever more blurred in the modern, globalized economy as many workers put in unpaid hours, answer emails late at night or on the weekends and do not take their paid vacation time. In this thought-provoking work, Sabine Donauer traces the cultural origins of such a development in twentieth-century Germany. She begins with John Maynard Keynes’ prediction in 1930 that his grandchildren would only n…

  • Cultural Centres and Guest Worker Integration in Stuttgart, Germany, 1960–1976

    Mark E SpickaARTICLEImmigrants & Minorities2015References: 9

    This paper explores the role that cultural centres played in the integration of guest workers into the city of Stuttgart, Germany. It argues that the centres were initially used as instruments of social control, but after the mid-1960s, as local authorities increasingly envisioned the guest workers as a permanent part of West German society, the focus of the centres was on the integration of guest workers, particularly the ‘second generation’, in…

  • City Policy and Guest Workers in Stuttgart, 1955-1973

    Mark E SpickaARTICLEGerman History2013Cited by: 5

    Journal Article City Policy and Guest Workers in Stuttgart, 1955–1973 Get access Mark E. Spicka Mark E. Spicka Shippensburg University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 345–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ght031 Published: 01 August 2013

  • Selling the Economic Miracle

    Mark E Spicka, Mark SpickaBOOKSelling the Economic Miracle2007

    Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s. The political meaning of economics contributed to conservative electoral succe…

  • Gender, Political Discourse, and the CDU/CSU Vision of the Economic Miracle, 1949-1957

    Mark E SpickaARTICLEGerman Studies Review2002

  • Selling the Economic Miracle

    Mark E SpickaARTICLEGerman Politics & Society2002Cited by: 2

    Perhaps the most remarkable development in the Federal Republicof Germany since World War II has been the creation of its stabledemocracy. Already by the second half of the 1950s, political commentatorsproclaimed that "Bonn is not Weimar." Whereas theWeimar Republic faced the proliferation of splinter parties, the riseof extremist parties, and the fragmentation of support for liberal andconservative parties-conditions that led to its ultimate col…

  • The Devil's Chemists on Trial

    Open AccessMark E SpickaARTICLEHistorian1999

    (1999). The Devil's Chemists on Trial: The American Prosecution of I. G. Farben at Nuremberg. The Historian: Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 865-882