This thesis seeks to identify the circumstances in the postwar United States that allowed American foreign policymakers to pursue contradictory denazification programs in occupied Germany. On May 8, 1945, Germany transformed from a sovereign state to an occupied territory. The United States and its Allies were tasked with administering the agreed upon plans for occupation in Germany, predominantly focused on denazification and reconstruction. In the American zone, the Occupying Military Government’s plans for denazification and reconstruction affected segments of the population very differently. While low-ranking public officials were banned from public service due to their ties to the Nazi regime, powerful industrialists and governmental l...
This thesis seeks to dispel the notion that Nazi ideology was merely an afterthought to numerous act...
Germans’ hesitance to completely remember the Nazi past after 1945 is well documented. Yet there als...
Abstract Paved with Good Intentions: The Development of German and American Holocaust-era Looted ...
My dissertation examines the construction, instrumentalization, and institutionalization of a homoge...
Most scholars interested in cultural change in western Germany after World War II have focused on th...
This dissertation examines the Allied program of mass arrests that, in the aftermath of World War II...
Following the Second World War, Germany underwent a process designed to remove elements of Nazism fr...
This dissertation explores the implementation of American policy in postwar Germany from the perspec...
My dissertation analyzes visual propaganda produced by the United States government for four distinc...
This dissertation examines how the German expellees have represented and commemorated their experien...
This thesis examines German memories of the Vertriebene, the twelve million Germans who fled their h...
Throughout the Second World War, the National Socialist regime enacted a wide-ranging campaign to en...
Thesis advisor: Peter H. WeilerComing to terms with memory of the Nazi past has been a long and chal...
This dissertation shows how after the Second World War and the Holocaust, both the communist East Ge...
This dissertation examines the perceptions and reactions of the leadership around Helmut Kohl, West ...
This thesis seeks to dispel the notion that Nazi ideology was merely an afterthought to numerous act...
Germans’ hesitance to completely remember the Nazi past after 1945 is well documented. Yet there als...
Abstract Paved with Good Intentions: The Development of German and American Holocaust-era Looted ...
My dissertation examines the construction, instrumentalization, and institutionalization of a homoge...
Most scholars interested in cultural change in western Germany after World War II have focused on th...
This dissertation examines the Allied program of mass arrests that, in the aftermath of World War II...
Following the Second World War, Germany underwent a process designed to remove elements of Nazism fr...
This dissertation explores the implementation of American policy in postwar Germany from the perspec...
My dissertation analyzes visual propaganda produced by the United States government for four distinc...
This dissertation examines how the German expellees have represented and commemorated their experien...
This thesis examines German memories of the Vertriebene, the twelve million Germans who fled their h...
Throughout the Second World War, the National Socialist regime enacted a wide-ranging campaign to en...
Thesis advisor: Peter H. WeilerComing to terms with memory of the Nazi past has been a long and chal...
This dissertation shows how after the Second World War and the Holocaust, both the communist East Ge...
This dissertation examines the perceptions and reactions of the leadership around Helmut Kohl, West ...
This thesis seeks to dispel the notion that Nazi ideology was merely an afterthought to numerous act...
Germans’ hesitance to completely remember the Nazi past after 1945 is well documented. Yet there als...
Abstract Paved with Good Intentions: The Development of German and American Holocaust-era Looted ...