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Aftermath

Aftermath

Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

by Harald Jähner
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/08/2022

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The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival.

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos?

In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust.

Aftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time.

ISBN:
9780753557884
9780753557884
Category:
European history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-08-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
432
Dimensions (mm):
196x128x27mm
Weight:
0.3kg

'A masterpiece'
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