Niemandsland - A History of Unoccupied Germany, 19441945

Informationen zum Autor Gareth Pritchard is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Adelaide. His previous publications include The Making of the GDR (2004) and, as co-editor, Power and the People: A Social History of Central European Politics, 1945–56 (2005). Klappentext The untold story of the largest of the unoccupied enclaves that survived after Germany's invasion and occupation in 1945. Zusammenfassung Niemandsland is the untold story of the largest of the unoccupied enclaves that survived after Germany's invasion and occupation by allied forces in 1945. Sandwiched between American and Red Army lines! the 500!000 inhabitants overthrew the last vestiges of the Nazi regime and established a little antifascist republic in no-man's-land. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The antifascist committees; 2. Conflict communities of the western Erzgebirge; 3. Into the abyss; 4. Taking power in Niemandsland; 5. Surviving in Niemandsland; 6. The politics of antifascist rule; 7. Antifascists and the wider population; 8. The politics of Soviet occupation; 9. Lessons of Niemandsland.

Product details

• Authors: Gareth Pritchard, Gareth (University of Canterbury Pritchard, Pritchard Gareth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107013506
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01350-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)