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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 44 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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