Lions and lambs : conflict in Weimar and the creation of Post-Nazi Germany / Noah Benezra Strote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strote, Noah Benezra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Germany.

Politics and government.

Germany--Economic conditions--1945-1990.

Economic conditions.

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.

Physical Description:

xii, 357 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven and London : Yale University Press, [2017]

Summary:

A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country as a robust democracy and one of the Western world's leading nations. In his debut work, Noah Strote analyzes this remarkable turnaround and challenges the widely held perception that the Western Allies-particularly the United States-were responsible for Germany's transformation. Instead, Strote draws from never-before-seen material to show how Hitler's rise ultimately united the fractious social groups that had vied for supremacy during the so-called Weimar Republic of 1918 to 1933. Strote's character-driven narrative follows ten Germans of diverse backgrounds who lived through the breakdown of the Weimar Republic and together assumed founding roles in the post-Nazi reconstruction. Accessible, deeply researched, and strikingly original, this book offers a fresh understanding of postwar Germany and, more broadly, the postwar European order.

Contents:

PART ONE: CONFLICT

The constitutional crisis

Sectarian visions of the economy

The battle over National education

The problem of culture

Two competing ideals for the Third Reich

PART TWO: PARTNERSHIP

The creation of constitutional consensus

Christian economics?

The education of Western Europeans

The culture of Christian partnership

Living with Liberal democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 275-340) and index.

ISBN:

0300219059

9780300219050

OCLC:

959033298