His professional career has taken him around the world, serving as the director of Tom Dixon’s design studio in the UK, Professor of Design at the ESAD School of Art and Design in France and creative director of the Scandinavian firm Georg Jensen. Peterson, Agnes Review of Deutschland zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Beiträge zur Politik und Kultur im 20. Our friendly team of funeral directors is available to ease your concerns and take care of all the funeral arrangements. Bracher's views about the "Rape of Prussia", as Papen's coup was also known, involved him in heated debate with Arnold Brecht, who maintained that nothing could be done to oppose the Preußenschlag as that would mean breaking the law. In a 1971 essay to mark the 100th anniversary of German unification, Bracher rejected the claim that Otto von Bismarck was the "grandfather" of the present-day Federal Republic, and argued that those historians who claimed that there was a line of continuity between Bismarck's German Empire and the Federal Republic were entirely mistaken.

Bracher argued contra the traditional "national patriotism" with loyalty to the nation that with "constitutional patriotism" the primary loyalty of Germans was to be towards the Basic Law and its values, creating a new sense of German national identity based upon a sense of loyalty to the Basic Law that would to apply to all regardless of sex, religion, skin color or ethnicity. Brachers Brothers in Gillingham, Dorset have been hugely helpful in the past couple of months with organising my Mother’s funeral. a work of unparalleled distinction, combing the most scrupulous objectivity with a passionate commitment to the democratic ethos".In the event Luke and Derren managed the meeting with a great deal of professionalism, courtesy, understanding and care. a b c d e f Müller, Jan-Werner Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification, and National Identity, Harvard: Yale University Press, 2000 page 98.

Bracher criticized those left-wing intellectuals who damned democracies like the United States as for being capitalist while praising those dictatorships that were “progressive” like Communist Cuba as holding morally dishonest values. Bracher argued that generic fascism theorists were guilty of indiscriminately lumping in too many disparate phenomena for the concept of fascism to be of any intellectual use, and of using the term fascist as a catch-all insult for anyone the left disliked. Bracher was a consistent advocate of the values of the Federal Republic, and its American ally against the values of East Germany and its Soviet patron. Kershaw, Ian The Nazi Dictatorship : Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, London : Arnold page 15. Bracher argued that the defeatist and uncertain mood of the 1970s–80s in West Germany was not unlike the mood of the 1920s–30s.

But in doing this they slide into the danger of a newer underestimation and trivialization of National Socialism itself.

Mike Bracher is a Visiting Fellow and within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.For Bracher, these attacks were both an absurd trivialization of Nazi crimes and a sinister attempt to advance the cause of Communism.