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In the House of the Hangman
Jeffrey K. Olick
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Paperback. The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. This title chronicles explores the processes of accommodation and rejection that Allied plans for a new German state inspired among the German intelligentsia. Num Pages: 392 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 622.
The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Socialism tainted Germany's entire population and thus discredited the nation's history and culture. The tremendous challenge that Allied officials and German thinkers faced as the war ended, then, was how to limn a postwar German identity that accounted for National Socialism without irrevocably damning the idea and character of Germany as a whole. In the House of the Hangman ... Read more
The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Socialism tainted Germany's entire population and thus discredited the nation's history and culture. The tremendous challenge that Allied officials and German thinkers faced as the war ended, then, was how to limn a postwar German identity that accounted for National Socialism without irrevocably damning the idea and character of Germany as a whole. In the House of the Hangman ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226103341
SKU
V9780226103341
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About Jeffrey K. Olick
Jeffrey K. Olick is professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for In the House of the Hangman
"A highly effective, syncretic account of the engagement with Nazism and its legacy in the early postwar period." (German Quarterly)"