Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of European integration.
Table of ContentsList of plates
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Part I Interregnum, 1945–49
1. The Allies in control, 1945–46
2. Growing division, 1946–49
Part II ‘The Allies’ Federal Chancellor’, 1949–55
3. Founding myth and ‘Economic Miracle’
4. Problems and challenges
5. Westintegration
6. Rearmament
Part III, ‘We are again somebody …’, Life and Politics in the 1950s
7. Visit to Moscow and the Hallstein Doctrine
8. European Integration: From Messina to the Elysee Treaty
9. Art and culture in the Miracle Years
10. Leisure and consumers
11. Gender and youth
12. The ‘Corporate’ State
Part IV Kanzlerdämmerung and the Nazi past
13. Adenauer, the GDR and the Berlin Wall
14. ‘Mein Gott, was soll aus Deutschland werden…’ The Presidency, the Spiegel
Affair and the Successor Question
15. The Nazi past
The Adenauer era: A summary
Selected reading
Index
