Elegantly written and translated, Jähner’s analysis deploys emotionally resonant detail-after war’s horror and exhilaration, German veterans came home to become “pitiful wraith in the unheated kitchen”-to vividly recreate a vibrant, if morally haunted, historical watershed. Keith Lowe Author Of Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. Social strife resulted, but also novel possibilities and a “bafflingly good mood,” according to Jähner: female cleanup crews became icons of solidarity a frenzied nightlife of jazz and dancing erupted respectable citizens became thieves and black marketeers abstract art and avant-garde furniture looked to the future the Volkswagen Beetle factory symbolized a gathering economic miracle and Germans swept their responsibility for the Holocaust under the rug while claiming victimhood, a maneuver that Jähner describes as “intolerable insolence” but also as a “necessary prerequisite” for breaking with the past and establishing democracy. The best books on the immediate aftermath of World War 2. This tome is a stunning work of art that is the result of amazing diligence, courage and ingenuity on the part of photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In his engrossing first book, Jähner, the former editor of the Berlin Times, examines how and why Germany was capable of radically transforming from a sinister fascist mindset toward a modern democratic state. The book, 'Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive' by Joel Meyerowitz, is a huge 'coffee table' book. Journalist Jähner surveys the decade following Nazi Germany’s surrender, when the nation lay in ruins, occupied by foreign armies, awash in refugees, and facing desperate shortages of food, fuel, and housing. AFTERMATH LIFE IN THE FALLOUT OF THE THIRD REICH, 1945-1955. Through his experiences and interactions with the local population, the novel. The novel tells the story of a British colonel, Lewis Morgan, who is sent to Hamburg to oversee the rebuilding of the city and the de-Nazification of its inhabitants. Germans rebounded from shattering defeat with hard work, a pragmatic embrace of the new, and a willful forgetting of trauma and guilt, according to this penetrating history of the early postwar period. A historical fiction, The Aftermath is set in Hamburg, Germany after the end of World War II.
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