After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 - Brossura

Jarausch, Konrad H.

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ISBN 10: 0195374002 ISBN 13: 9780195374001

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2008

Riassunto

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.
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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Informazioni sull?autore

Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Center for Research in Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. He has authored, co-authored, and edited over two dozen books on modern German and European history, including Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories; After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities, 1990-1995 (OUP, 1987); and The Rush to German Unity (OUP, 1994).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195374002
• ISBN 13: 9780195374001
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 394
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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