Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration
By Norbert Frei
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Frei chronicles the denazification process in Adenauer's 1950s Germany. The stopping of punishment for Nazi crimes formed the crux of a policitcs of the past which, to a large degree, revoked the consequences of the previous political expurgation.
Norbert Frei
Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei ist seit 2005 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Leiter des Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts und Ordentliches Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For anyone who wants to understand the mindset of Germany and Germans after the war, this is a book that is belongs on your library. It is fascinating to read about the immediate postway period in Germany, when Germans decided that they had had enough of "denazification" and began a period of instituting what the author calls "politics of the past". The Nazi period and its so-called "excesses" were viewed, after the main leaders were convicted, died, or left in prison into the late 40s and start of the 1950s as mere political mistakes, without any moral or ethical ramifications whatsoever. Elements of German leadership took advantage of the need for Germany to act as a buffer against the Communist threat and the need for German soldiers and military leadership to be held in the esteem that they held during and previous to the war. The book is a translation from the German, and is a somtimes difficult read, but I could not put it down as the information, delivered in very precise, detailed narrative is just breathtaking in concept - as policy objectives shifted after WWII, so did the ethics of the governments that fought Nazism.