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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779178203321

Autore

Fisher Jaimey

Titolo

Disciplining Germany : youth, reeducation, and reconstruction after the Second World War / / Jaimey Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8143-3743-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 375 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Kritik : German literary theory and cultural studies

Disciplina

943.087/4

Soggetti

Youth - Germany - History - 20th century

Youth movements - Germany - History - 20th century

Reconstruction (1939-1951) - Germany

Collective memory - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Social conditions 1945-1955

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-360) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Youth, memory, and guilt in early postwar Germany -- Hitler's youth? The Nazi "revolution" as youth uprising -- The Jugendproblem (youth problem): youth and reeducation in the early postwar public sphere -- Germany's youthful "catastrophe": guilt and modernity in the early postwar period -- Modernity's better others: youth in Jaspers's postwar university and Wiechert's reconstructive agenda -- Children of the rubble: youth, pedagogy, and politics in early DEFA films -- Reconstructing film in the western zones: stars of youthful sexuality -- Conclusion: Mobilizing youth for the Cold War.

Sommario/riassunto

During Hitler's reign, Nazis deliberately developed and exploited a youthful image and used youth to define their political and social hierarchies. This title analyzes a variety of media, including literature, news media, and films, in order to argue that youth and education played a central role in Germany's coming to terms with the Nazi past.