LEADER 04089nam 22006254a 450 001 9910782048303321 005 20230705230306.0 010 $a1-281-81749-X 010 $a9786613791702 010 $a0-231-50790-9 024 7 $a10.7312/frei11882 035 $a(CKB)1000000000523142 035 $a(EBL)909033 035 $a(OCoLC)213304802 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000276659 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206936 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276659 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10226138 035 $a(PQKB)10801031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909033 035 $a(DE-B1597)458869 035 $a(OCoLC)979739262 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231507905 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909033 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183374 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL379170 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000523142 100 $a20020605d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAdenauer's Germany and the Nazi past $ethe politics of amnesty and integration /$fNorbert Frei ; translated by Joel Golb 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 479 pages) 311 0 $a0-231-11882-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 417-459) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tFOREWORD --$tINTRODUCTION --$tPART I. A Legislation for the Past --$tPART II. A Past-Political Obsession: The Problem of the War Criminals --$tPART III. Fixing Past-Political Limits: Judicial Norms and Allied Intervention --$tCONCLUSION --$tPOSTSCRIPT FOR THE AMERICAN EDITION --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tSOURCES AND LITERATURE --$tINDEX 330 $aOf all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, at home questions of responsibility and retribution were not so clear. In this masterful examination of Germany under Adenauer, Norbert Frei shows that, beginning in 1949, the West German government dramatically reversed the denazification policies of the immediate postwar period and initiated a new "Vergangenheitspolitik," or "policy for the past," which has had enormous consequences reaching into the present. Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past chronicles how amnesty laws for Nazi officials were passed unanimously and civil servants who had been dismissed in 1945 were reinstated liberally-and how a massive popular outcry led to the release of war criminals who had been condemned by the Allies. These measures and movements represented more than just the rehabilitation of particular individuals. Frei argues that the amnesty process delegitimized the previous political expurgation administered by the Allies and, on a deeper level, served to satisfy the collective psychic needs of a society longing for a clean break with the unparalleled political and moral catastrophe it had undergone in the 1940's. Thus the era of Adenauer devolved into a scandal-ridden period of reintegration at any cost. Frei's work brilliantly and chillingly explores how the collective will of the German people, expressed through mass allegiance to new consensus-oriented democratic parties, cast off responsibility for the horrors of the war and Holocaust, effectively silencing engagement with the enormities of the Nazi past. 606 $aDenazification 607 $aGermany (West)$xPolitics and government 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1945-1990 615 0$aDenazification. 676 $a940.53/144/0943 700 $aFrei$b Norbert$0139869 701 $aGolb$b Joel$01546634 701 $aStern$b Fritz$f1926-2016.$0134993 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782048303321 996 $aAdenauer's Germany and the Nazi past$93802412 997 $aUNINA