The first major history of what happened in Germany immediately after
the Second World War 'Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest
historians writing today.' Newsweek 'Taylor's book is popular history
at its best, essential reading for anyone who is interested in the
Nazis and wants to know what happened next.' New Statesman Germany had
entered the twentieth century united, prosperous, and strong, admired
by almost all humanity for its remarkable achievements. By 1945 it was
a broken shell: its great cities lay in ruins and its shattered
industries and cultural heritage seemed utterly beyond saving. The
Germans themselves had come to be regarded as evil monsters. After six
years of warfare how were the exhausted victors to handle the end of a
horror that to most people seemed without precedent? In Exorcising
Hitler, Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and
what came after. As he describes the final Allied campaign, the
hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of peoples
in central and eastern Europe, the attitudes of the conquerors, the
competition between Soviet Russia and the West, the hunger and near
starvation of a once proud people, the initially naive attempt at
expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life and the later more
pragmatic approach, we begin to understand that despite almost total
destruction, a combination of conservatism, enterprise and pragmatism
in relation to former Nazis enabled the economic miracle of the 1950s.
And we see how it was only when the '60s generation (the children of
the Nazi era) began to question their parents with increasing violence
that Germany began to awake from its 'sleep cure'.
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ISBN
9781408824511
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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