After Hitler - Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

Zusatztext [an] excellent study Zusammenfassung 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 question by analyzing the restoration of civility and civil society, which were destroyed by the Nazis and then rebuilt during the post-war period.

Table des matières

• 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

Commentaire

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Konrad H Jarausch, Konrad H (Lurcy Professor of European Ci Jarausch, Konrad H. Jarausch, Konrad H. (Professor of History Jarausch
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 21.09.2006
• EAN: 9780195127799
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512779-9
• Pages: 400
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)