After Hitler
Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995
(Sprache: Englisch)
How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust? This book seeks to answer this most important question of German history during the...
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How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust? This book seeks to answer this most important question of German history during the second half of the 20th century by analyzing the restoration of civility and civil society which were destroyed by the Nazis and then rebuilt during the post-war period. Viewed from the vantage point of the physical and mental devastation of 1945, this rebirth is a truly astounding success story.
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How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust? This book seeks to answer this most important question of German history during the second half of the 20th century by analyzing the restoration of civility and civil society which were destroyed by the Nazis and then rebuilt during the post-war period. It argues that the transformation of German political culture was the result of a joint effort of the allied victors and a minority of concerned democrats, with external influences predominating initially and internal rethinking ultimately bringing the process to fruition. In the competition between the Western democratic and the Eastern communist models, the former won out eventually, because it proved more appealing to ordinary Germans for material and political reasons. The recivilizing proceeded primarily in three stages: During the immediate postwar period the occupation powers sought to demilitarize, denazify, and decartelize the defeated enemy so as to prevent the outbreak of World War Three by eliminating those negative traditions that had produced the first two conflicts. During the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the Germans themselves tried to catch up to the modernization taking place among their neighbors by Westernizing their culture, democratizing their outlook and expanding participation through generational protest. During the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s they attempted to complete their metamorphosis by repudiating Communism in the East, recovering a more normal sense of identity and dealing with the difficult immigration issue. This long-range transformation process has fostered the emergence of a new Berlin Republic that not only changed the location of the capital, but also infused German politics with a new, more self-confident spirit. Viewed from the vantage point of the physical and mental
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devastation of 1945, this rebirth is a truly astounding success story.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „After Hitler “
- Preface
- Introduction: Rupture of Civilization
- Part I: Forced Reorientation
- 1: Renouncing War
- 2: Questioning the Nation
- 3: Rejecting the Plan
- Preconditions of Freedom
- Part II: Contradictory Modernization
- 4: Embracing the West
- 5: Arriving at Democracy
- 6: Protesting Authority
- Paradoxes of Modernity
- Part III: Challenges of Civil Society
- 7: Abandoning Socialism
- 8: Searching for Normalcy
- 9: Fearing Foreignness
- Implications of Upheaval
- Conclusion: Contours of the berlin Republic
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Konrad H. Jarausch
Konrad Jarausch, geboren 1943, lehrt an der Universität von Chapel Hill, North Carolina, und ist Direktor des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Konrad H. Jarausch
- 2006, 400 Seiten, Maße: 23,6 x 16 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019512779X
- ISBN-13: 9780195127799
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
After Hitler is a detailed and comprehensive study of foreign and domestic efforts to "recivilize" Germany following World War II. Arthur B. Gunlicks Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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