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"Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945."@en
"Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945."
"Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945. Industrious and inventive, home over centuries to a disproportionate number of western civilization's greatest thinkers, writers, scientists and musicians, Germany had entered the twentieth century united, prosperous, and strong, admired by almost all humanity for its remarkable achievements. During the 1930s, embittered by one lost war and then scarred by mass unemployment, Germany embraced the dark cult of National Socialism. Within less than a generation, its great cities lay in ruins and its shattered industries and cultural heritage seemed utterly beyond saving. The Germans themselves had come to be regarded as evil monsters. After six years of warfare how were the exhausted victors to handle the end of a horror that to most people seemed without precedent? In Exorcising Hitler, Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and what came after. As he describes the final Allied campaign, the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of peoples in central and eastern Europe, the attitudes of the conquerors, the competition between Soviet Russia and the West, the hunger and near starvation of a once proud people, the initially naive attempt at expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life and the later more pragmatic approach, we begin to understand that despite almost total destruction, a combination of conservatism, enterprise and pragmatism in relation to former Nazis enabled the economic miracle of the 1950s. And we see how it was only when the '60s generation (the children of the Nazi era) began to question their parents with increasing violence that Germany began to awake from its 'sleep cure'."
"Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945. Industrious and inventive, home over centuries to a disproportionate number of western civilization's greatest thinkers, writers, scientists and musicians, Germany had entered the twentieth century united, prosperous, and strong, admired by almost all humanity for its remarkable achievements. During the 1930s, embittered by one lost war and then scarred by mass unemployment, Germany embraced the dark cult of National Socialism. Within less than a generation, its great cities lay in ruins and its shattered industries and cultural heritage seemed utterly beyond saving. The Germans themselves had come to be regarded as evil monsters. After six years of warfare how were the exhausted victors to handle the end of a horror that to most people seemed without precedent? In Exorcising Hitler, Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and what came after. As he describes the final Allied campaign, the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of peoples in central and eastern Europe, the attitudes of the conquerors, the competition between Soviet Russia and the West, the hunger and near starvation of a once proud people, the initially naive attempt at expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life and the later more pragmatic approach, we begin to understand that despite almost total destruction, a combination of conservatism, enterprise and pragmatism in relation to former Nazis enabled the economic miracle of the 1950s. And we see how it was only when the '60s generation (the children of the Nazi era) began to question their parents with increasing violence that Germany began to awake from its 'sleep cure'."@en
"Monografie over de val van het Derde Rijk en de periode daarna: de nasleep van de oorlog, de tegenstand van de nazi's, denazificatie van Duitsland en de Koude oorlog tussen sovjet- en westerse bezetters."
"British historian Taylor (The Berlin Wall) surveys the occupation policies of the Allied victors, showing a variegated picture: brutal in the Soviet zone, relatively humane in the American, British, and French sectors, but everywhere a landscape of hunger, cold, and--in German eyes--humiliation. Taylor also examines how the efforts to bring to account millions of ex-Nazi Party members were erratic, corrupt, and ineffective."
"British historian Taylor (The Berlin Wall) surveys the occupation policies of the Allied victors, showing a variegated picture: brutal in the Soviet zone, relatively humane in the American, British, and French sectors, but everywhere a landscape of hunger, cold, and--in German eyes--humiliation. Taylor also examines how the efforts to bring to account millions of ex-Nazi Party members were erratic, corrupt, and ineffective."@en
"Im September 1944 betrat erstmals ein amerikanischer Soldat deutschen Boden, einen Monat später wurde Aachen als erste grosse Stadt besetzt. Deutschlands Stunde Null hatte begonnen, und von nun an sahen sich die Alliierten völlig neuen Herausforderungen ausgesetzt. Noch während deutsche Truppen in erbitterten Kämpfen niedergeschlagen wurden, mussten die Eroberungen gesichert werden, galt es, der kritischen Situation in den überfüllten Gefangenenlagern Herr zu werden, waren Millionen Flüchtlinge aus Mittel- und Osteuropa aufzunehmen. Und vor allem: Die nationalsozialistische Ideologie sollte so schnell wie möglich aus dem Leben der Deutschen verschwinden. Politische Führer mussten entmachtet und zur Verantwortung gezogen werden, und zugleich war das zivile Leben neu zu organisieren. Für all das gab es keinen Masterplan. Deutschland, so Frederick Taylor, war für die westlichen Besatzungsmächte zunächst wie ein leeres Blatt. Eindringlich zeichnet er nach, wie dann jedoch die Lernprozesse begannen und ein fundamentaler Bewusstseinswandel einsetzte.Zwischen Krieg und Frieden erzählt diese dramatischen zwei Jahre deutscher Geschichte aus der Perspektive der Besatzer und der Besetzten, aus der Sicht der militärischen und politischen Führer wie der einfachen Menschen. Es ist ein beeindruckend vielstimmiges Bild, das nuancenreiche Panorama einer Umbruchzeit, in der nicht weniger als die Voraussetzungen für eine neue Gesellschaft geschaffen wurden."

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"Exorcising Hitler : the occupation and denazification of Germany"@en
"Exorcising Hitler : the occupation and denazification of Germany"
"Exorcising Hitler"
"Zwischen Krieg und Frieden : die Besetzung und Entnazifizierung Deutschlands 1944 - 1946"
"Zwischen Krieg und Frieden : die Besetzung und Entnazifizierung Deutschlands 1944-1946"
"Zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Die Besetzung und Entnazifizierung Deutschlands 1944-1946"
"Zwischen Krieg und Frieden Die Besetzung und Entnazifizierung Deutschlands 1944-1946"
"Exorcising Hitler the occupation and denazification of Germany"

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