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001 2015046286
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005 20151216080913.0
008 151214s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781785331428 (hardback : alkaline paper)
020 $z9781785331435 (ebook)
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100 1 $aÖstling, Johan,$d1978-
240 10 $aNazismens sensmoral.$lEnglish
245 10 $aSweden after Nazism :$bpolitics and culture in the wake of the Second World War /$cJohan Östling ; translated by Peter Graves.
263 $a1606
264 1 $aNew York :$bBerghahn Books,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published as Nazismens sensmoral : Svenska erfarenheter i andra världskrigets efterdyning (Stockholm : Atlantis, 2008).
520 2 $a"As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians. Nonetheless, as this definitive study shows, the war--and particularly the specter of Nazism--changed Swedish society profoundly. Prior to 1939, many Swedes shared an unmistakable affinity for German culture, and even after the outbreak of hostilities there remained prominent apologists for the Third Reich. After the Allied victory, however, Swedish intellectuals reframed Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism. Accordingly, Swedes' self-conception underwent a dramatic reformulation. From this interplay of suppressed traditions and bright dreams for the future, postwar Sweden emerged"--From publisher's website.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: A sword of Damocles over the age in which we live -- I. Nazism and the twentieth century -- II. The experience of Nazism -- III. Nazism as stigma -- IV. The ideas of 1945 -- V. German autumn -- VI. The lessons of Nazism -- Index of persons.
651 0 $aSweden$xPolitics and government$y1905-1950.
650 0 $aPolitics and culture$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWar and society$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aNational socialism$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aNazis$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSocial change$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects$zSweden.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xInfluence.
651 0 $aSweden$xRelations$zGermany.
651 0 $aGermany$xRelations$zSweden.