Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation

ISBN-13: 9781009216333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 350 str.

New Jersey) Dack Mikkel (Rowan University

Opis

A grassroots history of the Allied campaign to purge Nazism from German society after the Second World War.

Recenzje

'This is a fascinating study of everyday denazification on the basis of the answers to the 131 questions of the Allied questionnaire that sought to identify former Nazi perpetrators in the German population after the defeat of the Third Reich.' Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Spis treści

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. An Army of Academics: Planning the Denazification of Germany; 2. 'A Miserable Paper Substitute for a Spontaneous Revolution': Drafting the Questionnaire; 3. 'Land of the Fragebogen': Screening the German Population; 4. The 'Little Man's Nuremberg': Germans and Denazification; 5: Writing Away Culpability: The Unintended Outcomes of Denazification; Conclusion; Appendices: The Fragebogen Questions; Bibliography; Index.