After Hitler : recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995
This book deals with the transformation of Germany after the Second World War and the Holocaust into a Western, democratic, and therefore civilized country. It proceeds in three stages, beginning with the Allied post-war policies of demilitarization, denazification, and decartelization. In the secon...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford University Press
2006
Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
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| ISBN: | 9780195127799, 019512779X |
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- Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N