![]() ![]() There were no men and for those who did return they had much changed by the war, mentally and physically. We learn of how different local authorities dealt with the clean up, and the birth of the legend of the rubble women was born. The first thing Harald Jahner notes is that there was so much rubble everywhere, 500 million cubic metres of it, so much so that it influenced culture, music and art. This book tackles what happened after the ‘three’ ( in the West, in the East and 08:05/2033 officially to both) surrenders of the Third Reich and how Germany moved one from its darkest period in history. Not only the death of 3 million men, with another million unaccounted for, 650,000 civilians killed, 3 million women raped and the absolute destruction of their infrastructure, architecture and cultural heritage but also the lingering ideology of the Nazis, which now had to be overcome and dispelled. No country has perhaps been as devastated as much as Germany following its defeat in the Second World War. Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust.Īftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. ![]()
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