Coping with the Past

Germany and Austria After 1945

• Author(s): Kathy Harms, Lutz-Rainer Reuter, Volker Dürr,
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Pages: 269
• ISBN_10: 0299970728
  ISBN_13: 9780299970727
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Germany , History / Europe / Austria & Hungary , History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust ,

Description:... The defeat of Hitler in 1945 left Germany a tabula rasa. Normal personal, civic and political life had to be reconstructed on entirely new foundations. The overriding question of German guilt naturally gave rise to other questions. How could the German catastrophe have come about in 1933? How did the successor states - the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and Austria - view their joint past? In what ways did they rebuild their political, ecocomic and social structures?