| Description |
1 online resource (x, 390 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : before success -- March 29, 1945 : between the no longer and the not yet : peace breaks out gradually in Central Europe -- May 7, 1945 : malevolent rectangles of spectral horror : a photographer and his subject -- June 23, 1945 : after Dachau : of private vengeance, collective guilt, life in ruins, population transfers, and displaced persons -- October 4, 1945 : dilemmas of denazification : Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, military occupation, and militant democracy -- January 8, 1946 : are you occupied territory? : black G.I.s in fiction of the occupation -- April 24, 1946 : the race problem in the house on Lilac Road : occupation children and the film Toxi -- August 20, 1948 -- May 6, 1977 : Heil, Johnny : Billy Wilder's A foreign affair, or, The denazification of Erika von Schlutow -- Coda : comic relief? -- Afterword |
| Summary |
The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany.
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Denazification.
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Social psychology -- Germany
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Reconstruction (1939-1951)
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Denazification
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Social psychology
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War and literature
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War and motion pictures
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Art and the war
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Art
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Art and the war.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013037693 |
| ISBN |
9780674416314 |
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0674416317 |
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0674416325 |
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9780674416321 |
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