Aftermath : life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 / Harald Jähner ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.

Author: Jähner, Harald, 1953- author.

ImprintNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

Descriptionxv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note:"A Borzoi Book." --Title page verso.

Note:Originally published in German with the title "Wolfszeit" in 2019 by Rowohlt in Berlin.

Note:English translation originally published in the United Kingdom by WH Allen in 2021. --Title page verso.

Note:Zero hour? -- In ruins -- The great migration -- Dancing frenzy -- Love amidst the rubble -- Robbing, rationing, black-market trading: lessons for the market economy -- The economic miracle and the fear of immorality -- The re-educators -- The cold war of art and the design of democracy -- The sound of repression -- Afterword: happiness.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-370) and index.

Note:"A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust."-- Provided by publisher.

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