Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany - Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945-1950

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 'It will be desirable on political grounds': the development of internment policy, 1943-1946; 2. 'Not consistent with civil liberties': internment in practice, 1945-1950; 3. Internees: the 'worst Nazis' or a 'colourful assortment'?; 4. Internment camps: 'the main task of the camp is the complete isolation' of the detainees; Conclusion;

About the author

Andrew H. Beattie is Senior Lecturer in German and European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. An authority on the politics of history and memory in Germany, he is the author of Playing Politics with History: The Bundestag Inquiries into East Germany (2008).

Summary

This first in-depth study of Allied internment compares the detainment of Germans by all four occupying powers in the post-war period. It challenges common assumptions about divergent western and Soviet approaches to detainees, revealing how the process of denazification was more complex and severe than previously believed.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew H. Beattie, Andrew H. (University of New South Wales Beattie, Beattie Andrew H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108720731
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72073-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Prisoners of War