After Hitler Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

Name: After Hitler Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995
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ISBN: 9780195374001

ISBN-10: 0195374002

ISBN-13: 9780195374001

Edition: 2009

Authors: Konrad H. Jarausch, Konrad H. Jarausch

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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 shows how Germany's determination to emphasize civility and civil society, destroyed by the Nazi regime, helped restore the demoralized nation during the post-war period. Unlike other intellectual inquiries into…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction: Rupture of Civilization


The Shock of Inhumanity


Interpretations of Nazi Barbarism


Toward a History of Rehabilitation



Forced Reorientation



Renouncing War


Allied Disarmament


Working through Trauma


Longing for Peace


Forgotten Changes



Questioning the Nation


Purging the Nazis


Distancing from Nationalism


A Postnational Nation?


The Nation as Burden



Rejecting the Plan


Forced Restructuring


Return to the Market


The Social Market Economy


Limits of the German Model


Conclusion to Part I: Preconditions of Freedom



Contradictory Modernization



Embracing the West


Personal Encounters


Political Bonding


Popular Americanization


Contradictions of "De-Germanization"



Arriving at Democracy


Formal Democratization


Internalizing Democratic Values


Testing Parliamentary Government


Learned Democracy



Protesting Authority


Opposing Restoration


A Cultural Revolution


A More Liberal Society?


Consequences of Failure


Conclusion to Part II: Paradoxes of Modernity



Challenges of Civil Society



Abandoning Socialism


Dismantling Civic Culture


Reactivating Society


A Civic Revolution


The Loss of Utopia



Searching for Normalcy


Accepting Division


Choosing Unification


Uncertainties of Normality


Civil Society and Nation



Fearing Foreignness


Instrumental Opening


Unexpected Refugee Crisis


The Immigration Struggle


Touchstone of Civility


Conclusion to Part III: Implications of Upheaval


Conclusion: Contours of the Berlin Republic


Civil Learning Processes


Global Challenges


The Task of Civilization


Notes


Index