To Forget It All and Begin Anew

Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954

AvSteven M. Schroeder

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Germany’s transition from Nazism to peaceful, if at times reluctant, integration into the western and Soviet spheres during the decade immediately following the Second World War is one of the most remarkable events of the twentieth century. Shattered relations between Germans and their wartime enemies and victims had rendered prospects for peaceful relations between these groups unimaginable, or a dream belonging to the distant future. However, numerous grassroots initiatives found varying degrees of success in fostering reconciliation.Drawing on underutilized archival materials, To Forget It All and Begin Anew reveals a nuanced mosaic of like-minded people – from Germany and other countries, and from a wide variety of backgrounds and motives – who worked against considerable odds to make right the wrongs of the Nazi era. While acknowledging the enormous obstacles and challenges to reconciliatory work in postwar Germany, Steven M. Schroeder highlights the tangible and lasting achievements of this work, which marked the first steps toward new modes of peaceful engagement and cooperation in Germany and Europe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-17
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781442663541
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Serie:German and European Studies
Vikt:1 g

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Steven M. Schroeder is a faculty member in the History Department at the University of the Fraser Valley.

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‘Both researchers and students will find this book useful as a means of looking beyond the Cold War dynamic and state leaders to understand how prominent individuals, not always for the most altruistic reasons, sought to make Germans respectable again on the world stage after the horrors of Nazism.’ - Andrew Demshuk (American Historical Review vol 119:02:2014) ‘Schroeder’s research successfully introduces into the historiography the work of a number of hitherto neglected post-war institutions based on thorough archival digging, which in itself is an important contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the period.’ - Camilo Erlichman (Reviews in History, 19 June 2014)

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction1 The German People and Allied Demands: Pressures and Initiatives toward Reconciliation, 1944-19462 German Church and Political Groups3 Steps toward Christian-Jewish Reconciliation4 Broadening of International Contacts and Reconciliation Work5 The Politics of Reconciliation in the Two Germanies, 1949-1954ConclusionBibliography