Jahner, Harald
Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 Life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 Harald Jahner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside - First American edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. - xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Hardback book.
"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." "This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-370) and index.
Preface -- Zero hour? -- In ruins -- The great migration -- Dancing frenzy -- Love amidst the rubble -- Robbing, rationing, black-market trading -- lessons for the market economy -- The economic miracle and the fear of immorality -- The re-educators -- The cold war of art and the design of democracy -- Afterword: Happiness.
"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"-- 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. Bodies were still being found beneath the rubble. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Jahner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future-- and one starkly different from how most of us imagine it today. -- adapted from jacket
9780593319734 0593319737
2021020610
1900-1999
Germans--Social life and customs--20th century.
Intellectual life.
Social conditions.
Germany--History--1945-1955.
Germany--Social conditions--1945-1955.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
DD257.2 / .J3513 2022
943.0875 Jah 15
Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 Life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 Harald Jahner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside - First American edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. - xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Hardback book.
"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." "This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-370) and index.
Preface -- Zero hour? -- In ruins -- The great migration -- Dancing frenzy -- Love amidst the rubble -- Robbing, rationing, black-market trading -- lessons for the market economy -- The economic miracle and the fear of immorality -- The re-educators -- The cold war of art and the design of democracy -- Afterword: Happiness.
"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"-- 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. Bodies were still being found beneath the rubble. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Jahner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future-- and one starkly different from how most of us imagine it today. -- adapted from jacket
9780593319734 0593319737
2021020610
1900-1999
Germans--Social life and customs--20th century.
Intellectual life.
Social conditions.
Germany--History--1945-1955.
Germany--Social conditions--1945-1955.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
DD257.2 / .J3513 2022
943.0875 Jah 15