Nazi Past - Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe

Informationen zum Autor David A. Messenger , author of Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain , is associate professor of history and director of the Global and Area Studies Program at the University of Wyoming. Katrin Paehler is associate professor of history at Illinois State University and a contributor to Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust . Klappentext Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party functionaries, and intelligence agents who quietly navigated the transition to postwar life and successfully assimilated into a changed society after the war ended. In A Nazi Past, German and Ameri Zusammenfassung Based on extensive archival research as well as recently declassified US intelligence, A Nazi Past contributes greatly to our understanding of the postwar politics of memory.

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• Authors: David A. (EDT)/ Paehler Messenger, David A. Paehler Messenger
• Assisted by: David A Messenger (Editor), David A. Messenger (Editor), Katrin Paehler (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2015
• EAN: 9780813160566
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-6056-6
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories