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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674003403
ISBN-139780674003408
eBay Product ID (ePID)1713639
Product Key Features
Number of Pages328 Pages
Publication NameDenazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany : Brandenburg, 1945-1948
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
SubjectEurope / Germany, Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Public Affairs & Administration, World / European
TypeTextbook
AuthorTimothy R. Vogt
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
SeriesHarvard Historical Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight23.8 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-057502
ReviewsThis book is based on important new sources, offers fresh insights into what happened in East Germany in the early postwar years, and will stimulate further debate and research concerning the evolution of East Germany and its society.
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number137
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.53/144/094315
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Origins of Soviet Denazification Policy 2. The Purge Begins 3. Expropriation, Land Reform, and the PGs 4. The Denazification Experiment 5. The Denazification Commissions and the Purge 6. The Demographics of Denazification 7. The Varieties of Guilt and Innocence 8. Responses to the Nazi Period and the PGs in the New Germany Conclusion Appendix: Data Sample Notes Sources Index
SynopsisIn his study of Brandenburg, Germany, Timothy Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German historians and the "sovietization" interpretive model that has dominated western studies. He argues that Soviet denazification was neither an effective purge of society nor part of a methodical "sovietization" of the eastern zone. Instead, in a detailed study, denazification is pictured as a failure, which fell short of its goals and was eventually abandoned by the frustrated Soviet and German leadership.The case example of Brandenburg is an effective means of putting "flesh and blood" into the study and giving the reader insight into both broader developments and the human actors who propelled events. The result is an analysis that is based not simply on policymakers and their policies, but rather on how policy was continuously reformulated in response to developments on the local level. The study encompasses significant aspects of contemporary European history: everyday life in Nazi Germany, Germany's postwar coming to terms with its Nazi past, the Cold War division of Germany, postwar Soviet policy, and the construction of a one-party communist system in Eastern Europe., In his study of Brandenburg, Germany, Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German historians and the "sovietization" interpretive model that has dominated western studies. He argues that Soviet denazification was neither an effective purge of society nor part of a methodical "sovietization" of the eastern zone.