| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 287 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Monographs in German history ; v. 11 |
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Monographs in German history ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
List of Charts and Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Complicity and Disenchantment by 1945; Chapter 2. Compositional Change and Continuity, 1945-1955; Chapter 3. Legal Restructuring and Professional Reorganization; Chapter 4. Denazification and its Effects, 1945-1955; Chapter 5. Recasting Personal and Occupational World Views Conclusion Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in the peculiar and paradoxical legacy of these groups' evasive selective memory, by which they cast themselves as victims of the Third Reich rather than its erstwhile supporters |
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The avoidance of responsibility for the crimes and excesses of the Third Reich created a need to demonstrate democratic behavior in the post-war public sphere. Ultimately, this self-imposed pressure, while based on a falsified, selective group memory of the recent past, was more important in the long term than the Allies' stringent social change policies."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-281) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences) -- Germany -- Hesse -- History
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HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Politics and government
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Elite
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Entnazifizierung
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Wiederaufbau
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Gleichschaltung
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Elites.
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Nationaal-socialisme.
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Democratisering.
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| SUBJECT |
Hesse (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85060507
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| Subject |
Germany -- Hesse
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Hessen
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002043663 |
| ISBN |
178920416X |
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9781789204162 |
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