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After Hitler - Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 (Hardcover)
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After Hitler - Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 (Hardcover)
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In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the
world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few
would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans
would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful
European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from
the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and
rehabilitate themselves from the shame and horror of the Holocaust?
In After Hitler, Konrad H. Jarausch seeks to answer this question
by analyzing how civility and civil society, destroyed by the Nazi
regime, were restored during the post-war period.
It took a joint effort by the victors and the vanquished to bring
about such a fundamental reorientation. In the aftermath of World
War II, the Allies forced the defeated and divided Germans to
demilitarize, denationalize, and decartelize, thereby setting them
on a path towards physical recovery. During the 1960s and early
1970s, however, internal rethinking began to overshadow outside
intervention as the Germans themselves began westernizing their
political culture and democratizing their outlook. A younger
generation also vocally protested the status quo. As a united
Germany rose from the ruins of the Berlin Wall after 1989, the
Germans attempted to complete their material and moral
metamorphosis by repudiating communism, adopting a commitment to
human rights, and dealing with contentious issues of immigration
and citizenship. Viewed from the vantage point of the physical and
moral devastation of 1945, this rebirth is a truly astounding
success story, providing a unique look at a nation's recovery from
dictatorship and its atonement for massive crimes.
Unlike other intellectual inquiries into German efforts to deal
with the Nazi past, After Hitler primarily focuses on the practical
lessons a disoriented people drew from their past misdeeds, and
their struggle to create a new society with a sincere and deep
commitment to human rights. After Hitler offers a comprehensive
view of the breathtaking transformation of the Germans from the
defeated Nazi accomplices and Holocaust perpetrators of 1945 to the
civilized, democratic people of today's Germany.
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