Lions and lambs : conflict in Weimar and the creation of Post-Nazi Germany /
A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country as a robust democracy and...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country as a robust democracy and one of the Western world's leading nations. In his debut work, Noah Strote analyzes this remarkable turnaround and challenges the widely held perception that the Western Allies, particularly the United States, were responsible for Germany's transformation. Instead, Strote draws from never-before-seen material to show how Hitler's rise ultimately united the fractious social groups that had vied for supremacy during the so-called Weimar Republic of 1918 to 1933. Strote's character-driven narrative follows ten Germans of diverse backgrounds who lived through the breakdown of the Weimar Republic and together assumed founding roles in the post-Nazi reconstruction. Accessible, deeply researched and strikingly original, this book offers a fresh understanding of postwar Germany and, more broadly, the postwar European order. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 357 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300219059 9780300219050 |