Recasting West German elites
higher civil servants, business leaders, and physicians in Hesse between Nazism and democracy, 1945-1955
by Michael R. Hayse
"The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in the peculiar and paradoxical legacy of these groups' evasive selective memory, by which they cast themselves as victims of the Third Reich rather than its erstwhile supporters.
The avoidance of responsibility for the crimes and excesses of the Third Reich created a need to demonstrate democratic behavior in the post-war public sphere. Ultimately, this self-imposed pressure, while based on a falsified, selective group memory of the recent past, was more important in the long term than the Allies' stringent social change policies."--Jacket.
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Elite (Social sciences), History, Politics and government, Germany, politics and governmentPlaces
Germany, Hesse, Hesse (Germany)Times
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Recasting West German elites: higher civil servants, business leaders, and physicians in Hesse between Nazism and democracy, 1945-1955
2003, Berghahn Books
in English
1571812717 9781571812711
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Recasting West German Elites: Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse Between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955
2003, Berghahn Books, Incorporated
in English
178920416X 9781789204162
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