Everyday denazification in postwar Germany : the Fragebogen questionnaire and political screening during the Allied Occupation /

In the wake of the Second World War, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Europe. Between 1945 and 1949, twenty million political questionnaires, or Fragebögen, were distributed by American, British, French and Soviet armies to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dack, Mikkel, 1982- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:	Denazification > Germany. Germany > Politics and government > 1945-1990. Government questionnaires > Germany > History > 20th century. Employee screening > Germany > History > 20th century. National socialism > Social aspects > Germany. Germans > Attitudes.

Table of Contents:

An army of academics : planning the denazification of Germany
"A miserable paper substitute for a spontaneous revolution" : drafting the questionnaire
"Land of the Fragebogen" : screening the German population
The "little man's Nuremberg" : Germans and denazification
Writing away culpability : the unintended outcomes of denazification
Conclusion : Everyday denazification.