The Temptation of Despair : : Tales of the 1940s / / Werner Sollors.
In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed r...
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Sollors, Werner, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Temptation of Despair : Tales of the 1940s / Werner Sollors. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (400 p.) : 44 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE March 29, 1945: Between the No Longer and the Not Yet -- TWO May 7, 1945: Malevolent Rectangles of Spectral Horror -- THREE June 23, 1945: After Dachau -- FOUR October 4, 1945: Dilemmas of Denazifi cation -- FIVE January 8, 1946: Are You Occupied Territory? -- SIX April 24, 1946: The Race Problem in the House on Lilac Road -- SEVEN August 20, 1948 / May 6, 1977: Heil, Johnny -- Coda Comic Relief ? -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers, visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Denazification. Geschichte Europas. Reconstruction (1939-1951) Germany. Social psychology Germany. World War, 1939-1945 Art and the war. World War, 1939-1945 Influence. World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war. World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674052437 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674416314 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674416314 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674416314.jpg |
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Sollors, Werner, Sollors, Werner, The Temptation of Despair : Tales of the 1940s / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE March 29, 1945: Between the No Longer and the Not Yet -- TWO May 7, 1945: Malevolent Rectangles of Spectral Horror -- THREE June 23, 1945: After Dachau -- FOUR October 4, 1945: Dilemmas of Denazifi cation -- FIVE January 8, 1946: Are You Occupied Territory? -- SIX April 24, 1946: The Race Problem in the House on Lilac Road -- SEVEN August 20, 1948 / May 6, 1977: Heil, Johnny -- Coda Comic Relief ? -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE March 29, 1945: Between the No Longer and the Not Yet -- TWO May 7, 1945: Malevolent Rectangles of Spectral Horror -- THREE June 23, 1945: After Dachau -- FOUR October 4, 1945: Dilemmas of Denazifi cation -- FIVE January 8, 1946: Are You Occupied Territory? -- SIX April 24, 1946: The Race Problem in the House on Lilac Road -- SEVEN August 20, 1948 / May 6, 1977: Heil, Johnny -- Coda Comic Relief ? -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE March 29, 1945: Between the No Longer and the Not Yet -- TWO May 7, 1945: Malevolent Rectangles of Spectral Horror -- THREE June 23, 1945: After Dachau -- FOUR October 4, 1945: Dilemmas of Denazifi cation -- FIVE January 8, 1946: Are You Occupied Territory? -- SIX April 24, 1946: The Race Problem in the House on Lilac Road -- SEVEN August 20, 1948 / May 6, 1977: Heil, Johnny -- Coda Comic Relief ? -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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