The Temptation of Despair

by Werner Sollors

Book Overview

In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052439
• ISBN13: 9780674052437
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"