LIBRARY
HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: Germany's Reconstruction (thru US and other outside Assistance) after WWII
Readings in History
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
- Germany's Reconstruction"The Germany Under Reconstruction digital collection provides a varied selection of publications in both English and German from the period immediately following World War II. Many are publications of the U.S. occupying forces, including reports and descriptions of efforts to introduce U.S.-style democracy to Germany. Some of the other books and documents describe conditions in a country devastated by years of war, efforts at political, economic and cultural development, and the differing perspectives coming from the U.S. and British zones and the Russian zone of occupation. At the same time, the Germans themselves and the occupying forces look back at the National Socialist period and try to come to terms with what had happened."
Books from the Library Catalog
Germany is our problem,Call Number: D829.G3 M64Publication Date: 1945TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The road to war -- A path to peace -- A strong Europe is better than a strong Germany -- A future for Germany -- Industrial counterrevolution -- Reparations -- Germany as an anti-Russian smoke screen -- Germany has the will to try it again -- Germany has the means to try it again -- Germany and democracy -- Peace school for Germans -- Divide and conquer -- Disarmament and controls -- Germany and the World Security Agency -- Bring the men home -- Partners in peace.
"Photographic copy of the memorandum summarizing �The Morgenthau plan' which President Roosevelt took with him to the historic conference at Quebec in September of 1944": 4 p. preceding p. ix.
Kritik by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780814337431Publication Date: 2007-01-01During Hitler's reign, the Nazis deliberately developed and exploited a youthful image and used youth to define their political and social hierarchies. After the war, with Hitler gone but still requiring cultural exorcism, many intellectuals, authors, and filmmakers turned to these images of youth to navigate and negotiate the most difficult questions of Germany's recent, nefarious past. Focusing on youth, education, and crime allowed postwar Germans to claim one last realm of sovereignty against the Allies' own emphatic project of reeducation. Youth, reeducation, and reconstruction became important sites for the occupied to confront not only the recent past, but to negotiate the present occupation and, ultimately, direct the future of the German nation. Disciplining Germany analyzes a variety of media, including literature, news media, intellectual history, and films, in order to argue that youth and education played a central role in Germany's coming to terms with the Nazi past. Although there has been a recently renewed interest in Germany's coming to terms with the past, this attention has largely ignored the role of youth and reeducation. This lacuna is particularly perplexing given that the Allies' reeducation project became, in many ways, a cipher for the occupational project as a whole. Disciplining Germany opens up the discussion and points toward more general conclusions not only about youth and education as sites for wider socio-political and cultural debates but also about the complexities of occupation and the intertwining of different national cultures. In this investigation, the study attends to both "high" and "low" cultural text-to specialized versus popular texts-to examine how youth was mobilized across the generic spectrum. With these interdisciplinary approaches and timely interventions, Disciplining Germany will find a diverse readership, including upper-division and graduate courses in German studies and German history as well as those general readers interested in Nazi Germany, cultural history, film and literary studies, youth culture, American studies, and post-conflict and occupational situations.
