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A Question of Priorities

Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany

By: Rebecca Boehling

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A Question of Priorities

Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany

By: Rebecca Boehling

Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. With her study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on German social and political developments in Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart, Rebecca Boehling offers a most valuable contribution to this debate. She examines the decisions made by the U.S. Military Government regarding German municipal personnel from the first year of the occupation, when all city officials were appointed directly by Military Government of with its explicit approval, through the first postwar municipal elections in 1946 and 1948, when democratic self-government was gradually restored. Boehling explores the far-reaching effects of personnel decisions on German political life within the framework of U.S. policies intended to denazify and democratize Germany. The conclusion she draws is that the early local-level German developments under U.S. occupation facilitated economic recovery in a manner that restricted the implementation of political and social goals of democratization.

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Berghahn Books

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178533011X

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Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Jewish Family's Untold Story

By: Rebecca Boehling,Uta Larkey

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Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Jewish Family's Untold Story

By: Rebecca Boehling,Uta Larkey

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was pulled apart under the Nazi regime and dispersed over three continents. The family's unique eight-way correspondence across two generations brings into sharp focus the dilemma of Jews in Nazi Germany facing the painful decisions of when, if and to where they should emigrate. The authors capture the family members' fluctuating emotions of hope, optimism, resignation and despair as well as the day-to-day concerns, experiences and dynamics of family life despite increasing persecution and impending deportation. Headed by two sisters who were among the first female business owners in Essen, the family was far from conventional and their story contributes new dimensions to our understanding of Jewish life in Germany and in exile during these dark years.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107377692

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Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Jewish Family's Untold Story

By: Rebecca Boehling,Uta Larkey

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A Jewish Family's Untold Story

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Beyond Justice

The Auschwitz Trial

By: Rebecca Wittmann

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Beyond Justice

The Auschwitz Trial

By: Rebecca Wittmann

In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest and most public trial to take place in the country and attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and extensive trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittmann offers a fascinating reinterpretation of Germany’s first major attempt to confront its past. Evoking the courtroom atmosphere, Wittmann vividly recounts the testimony of survivors, former SS officers, and defendants—a cross-section of the camp population. Attorney General Fritz Bauer made an extraordinary effort to put the entire Auschwitz complex on trial, but constrained by West German murder laws, the prosecution had to resort to standards for illegal behavior that echoed the laws of the Third Reich. This provided a legitimacy to the Nazi state. Only those who exceeded direct orders were convicted of murder. This shocking ruling was reflected in the press coverage, which focused on only the most sadistic and brutal crimes, allowing the real atrocity at Auschwitz—mass murder in the gas chambers—to be relegated to the background. The Auschwitz trial had a paradoxical result. Although the prosecution succeeded in exposing SS crimes at the camp for the first time, the public absorbed a distorted representation of the criminality of the camp system. The Auschwitz trial ensured that rather than coming to terms with their Nazi past, Germans managed to delay a true reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust.

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Harvard University Press

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Survivors

Children's Lives After the Holocaust

By: Rebecca Clifford

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Survivors

Children's Lives After the Holocaust

By: Rebecca Clifford

Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of one hundred Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict through their adulthood and into old age. Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them—as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children—often branded “the lucky ones”—had to struggle to be able to call themselves “survivors” at all. Challenging our assumptions about trauma, Clifford’s powerful and surprising narrative helps us understand what it was like living after, and living with, childhoods marked by rupture and loss.

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Yale University Press

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0300243324

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A Question of Priorities

Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany

By: Rebecca Boehling

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Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Jewish Family's Untold Story

By: Rebecca L. Boehling,Uta Larkey

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Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Jewish Family's Untold Story

By: Rebecca L. Boehling,Uta Larkey

A uniquely fascinating and moving account of a German-Jewish family under the Third Reich and Holocaust.

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A Question of Priorities

A Question of Priorities

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Beyond Justice

Beyond Justice

Survivors

Survivors

A Question of Priorities

A Question of Priorities

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

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