Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 379 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780195127799
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019512779X
Uniform Title:
Umkehr. 〈engl.〉
Content:
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
Note:
Translated from the German
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-370) and index
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CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Rupture of Civilization; The Shock of Inhumanity; Interpretations of Nazi Barbarism; Toward a History of Rehabilitation; PART I: Forced Reorientation; CHAPTER 1 Renouncing War; CHAPTER 2 Questioning the Nation; CHAPTER 3 Rejecting the Plan; CONCLUSION TO PART I: Preconditions of Freedom; PART II: Contradictory Modernization; CHAPTER 4 Embracing the West; CHAPTER 5 Arriving at Democracy; CHAPTER 6 Protesting Authority; CONCLUSION TO PART II: Paradoxes of Modernity; PART III: Challenges of Civil Society; CHAPTER 7 Abandoning Socialism; CHAPTER 8 Searching for Normalcy
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CHAPTER 9 Fearing ForeignnessCONCLUSION TO PART III: Implications of Upheaval; CONCLUSION: Contours of the Berlin Republic; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Translated from the German
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195127799
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe After Hitler : Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995
Language:
English
Author information:
Jarausch, Konrad 1941-
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