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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: demon-haunted land
    sub title: witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany
  name:
    name part: Black, Monica
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany's rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing from a set of previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called "the most recent past." This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country's fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.
  table of contents: Reading signs -- A stranger in town -- The Miracle of Herford -- Soul medicine -- Messiah in Munich -- If evil is the illness, what is the cure? -- Sickness that comes from sin -- Are there witches among us? -- Kruse's crusade -- Dawn of the New Age -- Conclusion.
  note: Monica Black.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
    geographic code: e-gw---
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1945-1955
  subject:
    topic: National socialism
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Occultism
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Healers
    geographic: Germany (West)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Spiritual healing
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Psychic trauma
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    geographic: Germany (West)
    topic: Moral conditions
  classification: DD257.2 .B54 2020
  classification: 133.40943/09044
  identifier: 9781250225672
  identifier: 1250225671
  identifier: 9781250225665
  identifier: 2019052302
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200131
    record change date: 20210617140018.0
    record identifier: in00004344838