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Item Details
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POLITICS AFTER HITLER
THE WESTERN ALLIES AND THE GERMAN PARTY SYSTEM |
By: |
Daniel E. Rogers |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£80.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
081477461X |
ISBN 13: |
9780814774618 |
Publisher: |
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 March, 1995 |
Pages: |
224 |
Synopsis: |
How does a political system rebuild after a cataclysmic military defeat? How can a society, and its political infrastructure, resurrects itself or, in the case of Germany after World War II, be resurrected in such a way as to ensure long-term political stability? Politics After Hitler is the first book to demonstrate the importance of America, Britain, and France in the development of party politics in Germany after 1945. In the wake of the war, rightists of all descriptions, Communists, nationalists, and founders of small splinter parties all came under intense and deliberate pressure from the Western occupying forces. The occupiers arrived in Germany in 1945 without firm plans for reviving German politics and were forced to improvise by hastily constructing a licensing system for new parties. The Allies then used their licensing powers to limit and steer party politics in desirable directions, disempowering reactionary and hypernationalist forces, diluting fears of a Communist revolution, and preventing the political fragmentation that led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic a generation earlier.Based on extensive archival research, Politics After Hitler concludes that interference by the occupying forces made a stable and moderate party system in the FRG much more likely than has previously been assumed. The Allied occupation of Germany was therefore a resounding success in helping move the German political system toward the stability it enjoys to the present day. |
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US |
Imprint: |
New York University Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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