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Recasting West German Elites - Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955 (Hardcover)
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Recasting West German Elites - Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955 (Hardcover)
Series: Monographs in German History
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The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away
from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the
Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and
professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar
Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in the peculiar and
paradoxical legacy of these groups' evasive selective memory, by
which they cast themselves as victims of the Third Reich rather
than its erstwhile supporters. The avoidance of responsibility for
the crimes and excesses of the Third Reich created a need to
demonstrate democratic behavior in the post-war public sphere.
Ultimately, this self-imposed pressure, while based on a falsified,
selective group memory of the recent past, was more important in
the long term than the Allies' stringent social change policies.
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