The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s / Werner Sollors.

Author/creator Sollors, Werner author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Descriptionx, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 the war.

Contents Introduction : before success -- March 29, 1945 : between the no longer and the not yet : peace breaks out gradually in Central Europe -- May 7, 1945 : malevolent rectangles of spectral horror : a photographer and his subject -- June 23, 1945 : after Dachau : of private vengeance, collective guilt, life in ruins, population transfers, and displaced persons -- October 4, 1945 : dilemmas of denazification : Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, military occupation, and militant democracy -- January 8, 1946 : are you occupied territory? : black G.I.s in fiction of the occupation -- April 24, 1946 : the race problem in the house on Lilac Road : occupation children and the film Toxi -- August 20, 1948 -- May 6, 1977 : Heil, Johnny : Billy Wilder's A foreign affair, or, The denazification of Erika von Schlutow -- Coda : comic relief? -- Afterword.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013037693
ISBN9780674052437 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674052439 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks D829 .G3 S56 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold