Adenauer''s Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration
ISBN: 9780231507905
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Denazification; Germany (West) -- Politics and government; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1945–1990;

Frei chronicles the denazification process in Adenauer's 1950s Germany. The stopping of punishment for Nazi crimes formed the crux of a policitcs of the past which, to a large degree, revoked the consequences of the previous political expurgation.


Norbert Frei is professor of modern history at Ruhr-University Bochum. He is the author of many books on twentieth-century German history, including The Führer State.
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