After Hitler [[electronic resource] ] : recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 / / Konrad H. Jarausch ; translated by Brandon Hunziker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465748303321
• Autore: Jarausch Konrad Hugo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-19-537400-2; 1-4294-2005-7; 0-19-802936-5; 1-280-83109-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Disciplina: 943.087
• Soggetti: Political culture - Germany; Electronic books.; Germany History 1945-1990; Germany Social conditions 20th century; Germany Economic conditions 1945-1990
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translated from the German.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-370) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Rupture of Civilization; The Shock of Inhumanity; Interpretations of Nazi Barbarism; Toward a History of Rehabilitation; PART I: Forced Reorientation; CHAPTER 1 Renouncing War; Allied Disarmament; Working through Trauma; Longing for Peace; Forgotten Changes; CHAPTER 2 Questioning the Nation; Purging the Nazis; Distancing from Nationalism; A Postnational Nation?; The Nation as Burden; CHAPTER 3 Rejecting the Plan; Forced Restructuring; Return to the Market; The Social Market Economy; Limits of the German Model; CONCLUSION TO PART I: Preconditions of Freedom; PART II: Contradictory ModernizationCHAPTER 4 Embracing the West; Personal Encounters; Political Bonding; Popular Americanization; Contradictions of "De-Germanization"; CHAPTER 5 Arriving at Democracy; Formal Democratization; Internalizing Democratic Values; Testing Parliamentary Government; Learned Democracy; CHAPTER 6 Protesting Authority; Opposing Restoration; A Cultural Revolution; A More Liberal Society?; Consequences of Failure; CONCLUSION TO PART ; II: Paradoxes of Modernity; PART III: Challenges of Civil Society; CHAPTER 7 Abandoning Socialism; Dismantling Civic Culture; Reactivating SocietyA Civic Revolution; The Loss of Utopia; CHAPTER 8 Searching for Normalcy; Accepting Division; Choosing Unification; Uncertainties of Normality; Civil Society and Nation; CHAPTER 9 Fearing Foreignness; Instrumental Opening; Unexpected Refugee Crisis; The Immigration Struggle; Touchstone of Civility; CONCLUSION TO PART III: Implications of Upheaval; CONCLUSION: Contours of the Berlin Republic; Civil Learning Processes; Global Challenges; The Task of Civilization; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 didthe 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 seeks to answer this question by analyzing how civility and civil society, destroyed by the Nazi regime,were res