The Making of German Democracy

This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. The sources, which include official Allied and German documents, parliamentary debates, contemporary newspapers articles, diaries and a large number of previously unpublished archival materials, allow for the first time a source-based study of post-war Germany for non-German speakers. The sources allow an assessment of the changes of Allied policy in the immediate post-war years which led to the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany; explain the country's role in the intensifying Cold War; and encourage a re-evaluation of the 'economic miracle' and whether the Federal Republic signified a 'new start' for Germany or a 'restoration' of the old social forces and patterns. The book will be of great benefit to students of German post-war history at all levels. It offers a unique opportunity for teachers and lecturers to go well beyond the traditional sources explaining German History and the Cold War.

ISBN 0719080762   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780719080760 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 544 Publisher Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Imprint Manchester University Press   Series title Documents in Modern History Format Hardback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 28 Feb 2010   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 943.0875   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

		List of Plates
		Chronology of events in post-war Germany
Pt. I		Interregnum, 1945-49		1
1		The Allies in control, 1945-46		3
2		Growing division, 1946-49		28
Pt. II		'The Allies' Federal Chancellor', 1949-55		71
3		Founding myth and 'economic miracle'		73
4		Problems and challenges		107
5		Westintegration		128
6		Rearmament		156
Pt. III		'We are somebody again ... ', life and politics in the 1950s		181
7		Visit to Moscow and the Hallstein Doctrine		183
8		European integration: from Messina to the Elysee Treaty		198
9		Art and culture in the miracle years		215
10		Leisure and consumers		227
11		Gender and youth		237
12		The 'Corporate' State		249
Pt. IV		Kanzlerdammerung and the Nazi past		269
13		Adenauer, the GDR and the Berlin Wall		271
14		'Mein Gott, was soll aus Deutschland werden ... ': the Presidency, the Spiegel affair and the successor question		288
15		The Nazi pas		303
		The Adenauer era: a summary		320
		Selected reading		322
		Index		327

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