After Hitler : recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 / Konrad H. Jarausch ; translated by Brandon Hunziker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarausch, Konrad H. (Konrad Hugo), 1941-

Standardized Title:

Umkehr. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Germany.

Political culture.

Germany--History--1945-1990.

Germany.

Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Germany--Economic conditions--1945-1990.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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; Allied Disarmament; Working through Trauma; Longing for Peace; Forgotten Changes; CHAPTER 2 Questioning the Nation; Purging the Nazis; Distancing from Nationalism; A Postnational Nation?; The Nation as Burden; CHAPTER 3 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

PART II: Contradictory Modernization; CHAPTER 4 Embracing the West; Personal Encounters; Political Bonding; Popular Americanization; Contradictions of "De-Germanization"; CHAPTER 5 Arriving at Democracy; Formal Democratization; Internalizing Democratic Values; Testing Parliamentary Government; Learned Democracy; CHAPTER 6 Protesting Authority; Opposing Restoration; A Cultural Revolution; A More Liberal Society?; Consequences of Failure; CONCLUSION TO PART II: Paradoxes of Modernity; PART III: Challenges of Civil Society; CHAPTER 7 Abandoning Socialism; Dismantling Civic Culture

Reactivating Society; A Civic Revolution; The Loss of Utopia; CHAPTER 8 Searching for Normalcy; Accepting Division; Choosing Unification; Uncertainties of Normality; Civil Society and Nation; CHAPTER 9 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

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-370) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-988086-7

0-19-537400-2

1-4294-2005-7

0-19-802936-5

1-280-83109-X

OCLC:

466423956