Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 / Harald Jähner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Record details
- ISBN: 0593319737 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780593319734 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780593319734
- ISBN: 0593319737
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This is a Borzoi Book." Originally published in German language with the title "Wolfszeit" in 2019 by Rowohlt in Berlin. "English translation originally published in the United Kingdom by WH Allen in 2021." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary, etc.: | "A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Germany > History > 1945-1955. Germany > Social conditions > 1945-1955. Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century. Germans > Social life and customs > 20th century. |
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Aftermath : Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
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Aftermath : Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history--"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" ( The New York Times)-- of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. Featuring over 40 eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters from the period. The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins--no mail, no trains, no traffic--with bodies yet to be found beneath the towering rubble. Aftermath received wide acclaim and spent forty-eight weeks on the best-seller list in Germany when it was published there in 2019. It is the first history of Germany's national mentality in the immediate postwar years. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Harald Jähner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed by Jähner as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future--and one starkly different from how most of us imagine it today.