Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany

Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany

Author: Mikkel Dack

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-03-31

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1009216317

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In the wake of World War II, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Europe. Between 1945 and 1949, 20 million political questionnaires, or Fragebögen, were distributed by American, British, French, and Soviet armies to anxious Germans who had to prove their non-Nazi status to gain employment. Drafted by university professors and social scientists, these surveys defined much of the denazification experience and were immensely consequential to the material and emotional recovery of Germans. In Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany, Mikkel Dack draws the curtain to reveal what denazification looked like on the ground and in practice and how the highly criticized vetting program impacted the lives of individual Germans and their families as they recovered from the war. Accessing recently declassified documents, this book challenges traditional interpretations by illustrating the positive elements of the denazification campaign and recounting a more comprehensive history, one of mid-level Allied planners, civil affairs soldiers, and regular German citizens. The Fragebogen functions as a window into this everyday history.


Denazification in Soviet-occupied Germany

Denazification in Soviet-occupied Germany

Author: Timothy R. Vogt

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780674003408

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Instead, in a detailed study, denazification is pictured as a failure, which fell short of its goals and was eventually abandoned by the frustrated Soviet and German leadership.".


Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany

Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany

Author: Andrew H. Beattie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1108487637

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Examines how all four Allied powers interned alleged Nazis without trial in camps only recently liberated from Nazi control.


Exorcising Hitler

Exorcising Hitler

Author: Frederick Taylor

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 1608193829

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The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany. The country's cities lay in ruins, its economic base devastated. The German people stood at the brink of starvation, millions of them still in POW camps. This was the starting point as the Allies set out to build a humane, democratic nation on the ruins of the vanquished Nazi state-arguably the most monstrous regime the world has ever seen. In Exorcising Hitler, master historian Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's Year Zero and what came next. He describes the bitter endgame of war, the murderous Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of people in Central and Eastern Europe, and the nascent cold war struggle between Soviet and Western occupiers. The occupation was a tale of rivalries, cynical realpolitik, and blunders, but also of heroism, ingenuity, and determination-not least that of the German people, who shook off the nightmare of Nazism and rebuilt their battered country. Weaving together accounts of occupiers and Germans, high and low alike Exorcising Hitler is a tour de force of both scholarship and storytelling, the first comprehensive account of this critical episode in modern history.


The German Heiress

The German Heiress

Author: Anika Scott

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 006293774X

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“Meticulously researched and plotted like a noir thriller, The German Heiress tells a different story of WWII— of characters grappling with their own guilt and driven by the question of what they could have done to change the past.” —Jessica Shattuck, New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run in post-World War II Germany. Clara Falkenberg, once Germany’s most eligible and lauded heiress, earned the nickname “the Iron Fräulein” during World War II for her role operating her family’s ironworks empire. It’s been nearly two years since the war ended and she’s left with nothing but a false identification card and a series of burning questions about her family’s past. With nowhere else to run to, she decides to return home and take refuge with her dear friend, Elisa. Narrowly escaping a near-disastrous interrogation by a British officer who’s hell-bent on arresting her for war crimes, she arrives home to discover the city in ruins, and Elisa missing. As Clara begins tracking down Elisa, she encounters Jakob, a charismatic young man working on the black market, who, for his own reasons, is also searching for Elisa. Clara and Jakob soon discover how they might help each other—if only they can stay ahead of the officer determined to make Clara answer for her actions during the war. Propulsive, meticulously researched, and action-fueled, The German Heiress is a mesmerizing page-turner that questions the meaning of justice and morality, deftly shining the spotlight on the often-overlooked perspective of Germans who were caught in the crossfire of the Nazi regime and had nowhere to turn.


The Antifascist Classroom

The Antifascist Classroom

Author: B. Blessing

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-11-13

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0230601634

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This study explores the history of the New School that developed in the postwar period and its role in communicating antifascism to young people in the Soviet zone. Blessing traces how the decisions about how to educate young people after the National Socialist dictatorship became part of a broader discussion about the future of the German nation.


Transnational Nazism

Transnational Nazism

Author: Ricky W. Law

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1108474632

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The first English-language study of German-Japanese interwar relations to employ sources in both languages.


The Fourth Reich

The Fourth Reich

Author: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-14

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1108497497

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The first history of postwar fears of a Nazi return to power in Western political, intellectual, and cultural life.


Information Hunters

Information Hunters

Author: Kathy Lee Peiss

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0190944617

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The country of the mind must also attack -- Librarians and collectors go to war -- The wild scramble for documents -- Acquisitions on a Grand Scale -- Fugitive Records of War -- Book Burning-American Style -- Not a Library, but a Large Depot of Loot.