The Reconstruction of Civilization: Fifty Years in Postwar Germany (translated by Lin's History of Thought)
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In the spring of 1945, the German army was defeated, and the world was immersed in the unspeakable crime of the Holocaust. Few people expected that just half a century later, the Germans would transform and stand at the forefront of European integration as a prosperous nation. How did the Germans recover from the devastation of World War II and stand up again from the shame of the Holocaust? In this book, Jarausch describes the detailed process of Germany rebuilding civilization and civil society destroyed by the Nazi regime, thereby achieving national rejuvenation. Unlike other scholarly works that explore Germany's response to its Nazi past, The Reconstruction of Civilization focuses primarily on how a disoriented people learned practical lessons from the mistakes of the past and their struggle to create a new society focused on human rights. This perspective provides a challenging analysis of the gradually formed national and character traits of the Germans, and provides new possibilities for the study of world history.
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