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Exorcising Hitler - The Occupation and Denazification of Germany (Paperback)
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Exorcising Hitler - The Occupation and Denazification of Germany (Paperback)
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List price R618
Loot Price R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
You Save R178 (29%)
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The first major history of what happened in Germany immediately
after the Second World War 'Frederick Taylor is one of the
brightest historians writing today.' Newsweek 'Taylor's book is
popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who is
interested in the Nazis and wants to know what happened next.' New
Statesman Germany had entered the twentieth century united,
prosperous, and strong, admired by almost all humanity for its
remarkable achievements. By 1945 it was a broken shell: its great
cities lay in ruins and its shattered industries and cultural
heritage seemed utterly beyond saving. The Germans themselves had
come to be regarded as evil monsters. After six years of warfare
how were the exhausted victors to handle the end of a horror that
to most people seemed without precedent? In Exorcising Hitler,
Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and what
came after. As he describes the final Allied campaign, the hunting
down of the Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of peoples in
central and eastern Europe, the attitudes of the conquerors, the
competition between Soviet Russia and the West, the hunger and near
starvation of a once proud people, the initially naive attempt at
expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life and the later more
pragmatic approach, we begin to understand that despite almost
total destruction, a combination of conservatism, enterprise and
pragmatism in relation to former Nazis enabled the economic miracle
of the 1950s. And we see how it was only when the '60s generation
(the children of the Nazi era) began to question their parents with
increasing violence that Germany began to awake from its 'sleep
cure'.
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