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Recasting West German Elites

- Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955

Om Recasting West German Elites

The rapid shift of German elite groups'' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in the peculiar and paradoxical legacy of these groups'' evasive selective memory, by which they cast themselves as victims of the Third Reich rather than its erstwhile supporters. The avoidance of responsibility for the crimes and excesses of the Third Reich created a need to demonstrate democratic behavior in the post-war public sphere. Ultimately, this self-imposed pressure, while based on a falsified, selective group memory of the recent past, was more important in the long term than the Allies'' stringent social change policies.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9781571812711
  • Format:
  • Inbunden
  • Sidor:
  • 288
  • Utgiven:
  • 18. december 2003
  • Mått:
  • 236x163x18 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 530 g.
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Leveranstid: 2-4 veckor
Förväntad leverans: 16. december 2024

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The rapid shift of German elite groups'' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in the peculiar and paradoxical legacy of these groups'' evasive selective memory, by which they cast themselves as victims of the Third Reich rather than its erstwhile supporters. The avoidance of responsibility for the crimes and excesses of the Third Reich created a need to demonstrate democratic behavior in the post-war public sphere. Ultimately, this self-imposed pressure, while based on a falsified, selective group memory of the recent past, was more important in the long term than the Allies'' stringent social change policies.

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