Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 /
Jähner, Harald, 1953-
Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 / Life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955. Harald Jähner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside. - First edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] - xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
"English translation originally published in the United Kingdom by WH Allen in 2021." -- Title page verso. "This is a Borzoi Book." -- Title page verso. Originally published in German language with the title "Wolfszeit" in 2019 by Rowohlt in Berlin. -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-370) and index.
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 imorality -- The re-educators -- The Cold War of art and the design of democracy -- The sound of repression -- Afterward: 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."--
0593319737 9780593319734
2021020610
Germans--Social life and customs--20th century.
Germany--History--1945-1955.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
Germany--Social conditions--1945-1955.
DD257.2 / .J3513 2022
943.087/5
Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 / Life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955. Harald Jähner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside. - First edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] - xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
"English translation originally published in the United Kingdom by WH Allen in 2021." -- Title page verso. "This is a Borzoi Book." -- Title page verso. Originally published in German language with the title "Wolfszeit" in 2019 by Rowohlt in Berlin. -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-370) and index.
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 imorality -- The re-educators -- The Cold War of art and the design of democracy -- The sound of repression -- Afterward: 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."--
0593319737 9780593319734
2021020610
Germans--Social life and customs--20th century.
Germany--History--1945-1955.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
Germany--Social conditions--1945-1955.
DD257.2 / .J3513 2022
943.087/5