![]() | The Temptation of Despair Subjects: Reconstruction (1939–1951) -- Germany; Denazification; Social psychology -- Germany; World War 1939–1945 -- Influence; World War 1939–1945 -- Art and the war; World War 1939–1945 -- Literature and the war; World War 1939–1945 -- Motion pictures and th; In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. Sollors Werner : Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. |
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