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Recasting West German Elites : Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955 / Michael R. Hayse.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs in German History ; 11Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: 2003Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789204162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5/2/094341 21
LOC classification:
  • HN458.H4 H397 2003
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Charts and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Complicity and Disenchantment by 1945 -- Chapter 2: Compositional Change and Continuity, 1945-1955 -- Chapter 3: Legal Restructuring and Professional Reorganization -- Chapter 4: Denazification and its Effects, 1945-1955 -- Chapter 5: Recasting Personal and Occupational World Views -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Charts and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Complicity and Disenchantment by 1945 -- Chapter 2: Compositional Change and Continuity, 1945-1955 -- Chapter 3: Legal Restructuring and Professional Reorganization -- Chapter 4: Denazification and its Effects, 1945-1955 -- Chapter 5: Recasting Personal and Occupational World Views -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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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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In English.

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