Author: Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: germans, recivilizing, hitler
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-12-22
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0195374002
ISBN-13: 9780195374001

In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the shame and horror of the Holocaust? In After Hitler, Konrad H. Jarausch shows how Germany’s determination to emphasize civility and civil society, destroyed by the Nazi regime,