A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party functionaries, and intelligence agents who quietly navigated the transition to postwar life and successfully assimilated into a changed society after the war ended. In A Nazi Past, German and Ameri

Author: David A. Messenger
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/29/2015
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780813160566

About the Author

David A. Messenger, author of Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain, is associate professor of history and director of the Global and Area Studies Program at the University of Wyoming.

Katrin Paehler is associate professor of history at Illinois State University and a contributor to Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust.

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