Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 /
Jähner, Harald, 1953-
Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 / Harald Jähner. - xvii, 382 pages : illustrations, photographs (black and white)
"First published with the title Wolfszeit in Germany in 2019 by Rowohlt, Berlin." On reverse of title-page.
"Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust. 'Aftermath' is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time"-- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1119643/aftermath/9780753557860.html
9780753557860 9780753557877
GBC132524 bnb
020120018 Uk
Peace-building--History.--Germany
Germany--Social conditions--1945-1955.
Germany--History--1945-1955.
Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.
943.0874
Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 / Harald Jähner. - xvii, 382 pages : illustrations, photographs (black and white)
"First published with the title Wolfszeit in Germany in 2019 by Rowohlt, Berlin." On reverse of title-page.
"Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust. 'Aftermath' is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time"-- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1119643/aftermath/9780753557860.html
9780753557860 9780753557877
GBC132524 bnb
020120018 Uk
Peace-building--History.--Germany
Germany--Social conditions--1945-1955.
Germany--History--1945-1955.
Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.
943.0874