Andrew I. Port

Andrew I. Port, Professor of German history and author of Germany (Polity, 2025), traces Germany’s dramatic postwar transformation. He contrasts East and West developments, explains how division was imposed, and examines reunification’s promises and disappointments. He also discusses the long 1950s, the rise of the far right, and changing expectations about German responsibility and identity.

Andrew I. Port, a professor of German history who studies postwar Germany and the GDR, guides listeners through Germany’s dramatic 20th-century transformation. He traces parallel East/West paths, explains how division and unification unfolded, and examines stability, reunification hopes and disappointments, and the recent rise of the far right.

Andrew I. Port, professor of German history and author of Germany, explores postwar transformation from ruined, divided states to a unified powerhouse. He traces parallel East/West trajectories, the imposed division, 1990s resentments, and contemporary debates about rearmament and the far right. Short, readable history that highlights disunity, reckoning with Nazism, and surprising commonalities.