Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi past : the politics of amnesty and integration / Norbert Frei ; translated by Joel Golb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frei, Norbert.

Standardized Title:

Vergangenheitspolitik. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Germany (West)--Politics and government.

Germany (West).

Politics and government.

Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.

Germany.

Denazification.

Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967.

Adenauer, Konrad.

Germany--History--1945-1955.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 479 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

Frei chronicles the denazification process in Adenauer's 1950s Germany. The stopping of punishment for Nazi crimes formed the crux of a policitcs of the past which, to a large degree, revoked the consequences of the previous political expurgation.

Contents:

Part I A Legislation for the Past: Parliamentary and Administrative Junctures 1

1. The Amnesty Law of 1949 5

2. The "Liquidation" of Denazification 27

3. The Rehabilitation and Pensioning of the "131ers" 41

4. The Amnesty Law of 1954 67

Part II A Past-Political Obsession: The Problem of the War-Criminals 93

5. The War-Crimes Issue Preceding the Bonn Republic 97

6. The Politicization of the War-Criminal Question (1949-50) 121

7. The Debate Under the Sign of Rearmament (1950-51) 147

8. A "General Treaty" instead of a "General Amnesty" (1951-52) 177

9. The Windup of the War-Criminal Problem 203

Part III Fixing Past-Political Limits: Judicial Norms and Allied Intervention 235

10. The Hedler Affair and the Establishment of Criminal-Legal Norms (1950) 237

11. The Rise and Banning of the Socialist Reich Party (1951-52) 251

12. The Naumann Affair and the Role of the Allies (1953) 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-459) and index.

ISBN:

0231118821

OCLC:

49299828