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A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country as a robust democracy and...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country as a robust democracy and one of the Western world's leading nations. In his debut work, Noah Strote analyzes this remarkable turnaround and challenges the widely held perception that the Western Allies-particularly the United States-were responsible for Germany's transformation. Instead, Strote draws from never-before-seen ma |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 357 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300219050 0300219059 |
| Index Number: | DD237 |
| CLC: | D751.69 |
| Call Number: | D751.69/S925 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Part 1. Conflict -- The constitutional crisis -- Sectarian visions of the economy -- The battle over national education -- The problem of culture -- Two competing ideals for a Third Reich -- Part 2. Partnership -- The creation of constitutional consensus -- Christian economics? -- The education of Western Europeans -- The culture of Christian partnership -- Living with liberal democracy -- Conclusion. |