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Aftermath, life in the fallout of the Third Reich, Harald Jähner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

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Aftermath, life in the fallout of the Third Reich, Harald Jähner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index

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illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Aftermath

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Harald Jähner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside

Sub title

life in the fallout of the Third Reich

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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