In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call
forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly
monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to
resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in
the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on
a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries,
photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works
of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences
of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation,
concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers,
visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling
to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they
witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and
death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others
shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or
surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor
to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt
and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness
of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western
history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms
with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated
people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and
resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied
victory and occupation.
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