Germany No 1 1955 Documents Relating To The Termination Of The Occupation Regime In The Federal Republic Of Germany

Author : Francis Graham-Dixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857734180
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Allied Occupation of Germany written by Francis Graham-Dixon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, the allies occupied a shattered Germany. Britain held North-Western Germany for ten years, overseeing the rehabilitation of 'the biggest single forced population movement in modern history', as Germans from around Europe were expelled from the crumbling Third Reich. This was a humanitarian crisis - with most hospitals, houses, transport networks and schools destroyed during the war, and the British and Americans running enormous and often inhumane refugee camps. Here, Francis Graham-Dixon assesses how the British squared their ethical focus on liberalism with their status as an occupying power, and examines the economic, military and political pressures of the period through the key turning points of the end of World War II - the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, the mismanagement of the refugee camp system and the fallout between occupiers and occupied after the Nuremberg trials of 1945/6. The first book to compare German and British sources from the period, this is an essential contribution to the literature on World War II, the Cold War and post-war Europe.