Logistics Matters and the U.S. Army in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Logistics Matters and the U.S. Army in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949

Author: Lee Kruger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-23

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 3319388363

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This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and sector of Berlin. Both missions required logistics support, a critical aspect often understated in existing scholarship. The security mission, covered by the combat troops, declined between 1945 and 1948, but grew again with the Berlin Blockade/Airlift in 1948, and then again with the Korean crisis in 1950. The logistics mission grew exponentially to support this security mission, as the U.S. Army was the only U.S. Government agency possessing the ability and resources to initially support the occupation mission in Germany. The build-up of ‘Little Americas’ during the occupation years stood forward-deployed U.S. military forces in Europe in good stead over the ensuing decades.

Endkampf
Endkampf

Author: Stephen G. Fritz

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2004-10-08

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780813123257

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In "Endkampf," Stephen G. Fritz offers a gripping portrait of the collapse of a society that "chillingly narrates the last desperate days of Nazi Germany, illustrating the terror of the last weeks of World War II" (Jerry Cooper). 32 photos. 6 maps.

The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty
The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty

Author: Peter H. Merkl

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1349274887

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Fifty years after the formation of the Federal Republic and a decade after German unification, we stand on the cusp of a new century and a new millennium of German history. At the same time EMU marks a giant stride towards European integration and the end of the Deutschmark. In this book, leading international scholars reflect on the dramatic transformations of Germany's past and on Germany's future prospects. Post-war democratic and economic renewal is set in the context of continuing debates about German identity. There are assessments of all major leaders, parties and ideologies; of the still unfinished agenda of integrating East and West; of how the next generation of German leaders will interact with ageing governmental structures; of the Bundesbank and the successes and failures of economic policy, the trade unions and the media; and of Germany's emerging new role in Europe and the world.

The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945
The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945

Author: Otto Dov Kulka

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 0300168586

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Presented for the first time in English, the huge archive of secret Nazi reports reveals what life was like for German Jews and the extent to which the German population supported their social exclusion and the measures that led to their annihilation.

Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945
Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945

Author: David Crew

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1134891067

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The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research accessible to undergraduate and graduate students alike.

Genocide on Trial
Genocide on Trial

Author: Donald Bloxham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0198208723

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When the Allies decided to try German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to create a record of what had happened in Europe. This ground-breaking new study shows how Britain and the United States went about inscribing thehistory of Nazi Germany and the effect their trial and occupation policies had on both long and short term 'memory' in Germany and Britain. Donald Bloxham here examines the actions and trials of German soldiers and policemen, the use of legal evidence, the refractory functions of the courtroom, andAllied political and cultural preconceptions of both 'Germanism' and of German criminality. His evidence shows conclusively that the trials were a failure: the greatest of all 'crimes against humanity' - the 'final solution of the Jewish question' - was largely written out of history in thepost-war era and the trials failed to transmit the breadth of German criminality. Finally, with reference to the historiography of the Holocaust, Genocide on Trial illuminates the function of the trials in perpetuating misleading generalizations about the course of the Holocaust and the nature ofNazism.

The Perils of Peace
The Perils of Peace

Author: Jessica Reinisch

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0199660794

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An archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. Uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the immediate post-war period.