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; CHAPTER 2 Questioning the Nation; CHAPTER 3 Rejecting the Plan; CONCLUSION TO PART I: Preconditions of Freedom; PART II: Contradictory Modernization; CHAPTER 4 Embracing the West; CHAPTER 5 Arriving at Democracy; CHAPTER 6 Protesting Authority; CONCLUSION TO PART II: Paradoxes of Modernity; PART III: Challenges of Civil Society; CHAPTER 7 Abandoning Socialism; CHAPTER 8 Searching for Normalcy
CHAPTER 9 Fearing ForeignnessCONCLUSION TO PART III: Implications of Upheaval; CONCLUSION: Contours of the Berlin Republic; 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
Summary
How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust? This book seeks to answer this question by analyzing the restoration of civility and civil society, which were destroyed by the Nazis and then rebuilt during the post-war period
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-370) and index