作者:
Harald Jähner 出版社: Knopf 副标题: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 译者:
Shaun Whiteside 出版年: 2022-1-11 页数: 416 定价: USD 26.99 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593319734
A revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II, when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. This book received wide acclaim and spent forty-eight weeks on the best-seller list in Germany when it was published there in 2019.
A revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II, when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. This book received wide acclaim and spent forty-eight weeks on the best-seller list in Germany when it was published there in 2019.
The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins—no mail, no trains, no traffic—with bodies yet to be found beneath the towering rubble.
Aftermath is the first history of Germany's national mentality in the immediate postwar years. Using major global political developments as a backdrop—and including eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters—Harald Jähner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed by Jähner as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future—and one starkly different from how most of us imagine it today. Aftermath helps to answer the question: "How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more?"
作者简介
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Harald Jähner is a cultural journalist and former editor of The Berlin Times. He has been an honorary professor of cultural journalism at Berlin's University of the Arts since 2011. Aftermath, his first book, won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2019.
Shaun Whiteside is a translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many works of nonfiction and n...
Harald Jähner is a cultural journalist and former editor of The Berlin Times. He has been an honorary professor of cultural journalism at Berlin's University of the Arts since 2011. Aftermath, his first book, won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2019.
Shaun Whiteside is a translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many works of nonfiction and novels, including Manituana and Altai by Wu Ming, The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink, Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, and Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger, which won him the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation in 1997.
1 有用 尹柏 2024-11-16 04:40:04 美国
本书最成功的叙事在于展现出德国人如何在战后十年完成了纳粹十年都未能完成的「团结」:有别于一体化式消灭个人的民族「团结」,战后的「团结」根植于那段共同的艰难岁月,那种真正砸在自己头上而非转嫁给他者的苦难,那些大范围的迁徙,大规模的重建,食不果腹与衣衫褴褛,普遍的两性问题,全民大讨论,关于抛弃与捍卫传统道德,抽象艺术与新式生活;「团结」甚至还建立在对战争与大屠杀罪责的集体沉默,选择遗忘与暂且搁置之上。... 本书最成功的叙事在于展现出德国人如何在战后十年完成了纳粹十年都未能完成的「团结」:有别于一体化式消灭个人的民族「团结」,战后的「团结」根植于那段共同的艰难岁月,那种真正砸在自己头上而非转嫁给他者的苦难,那些大范围的迁徙,大规模的重建,食不果腹与衣衫褴褛,普遍的两性问题,全民大讨论,关于抛弃与捍卫传统道德,抽象艺术与新式生活;「团结」甚至还建立在对战争与大屠杀罪责的集体沉默,选择遗忘与暂且搁置之上。而所谓的经济奇迹,只不过是现实时空与地缘政治赠予的一份幸运。这份幸运绝非当时德国人所应得。因此停在1955这个节点上,不禁让人困惑,那个关于德国深刻反思的神话,是如何在未来三十年间被形塑乃至被记忆的——难道是冷战? (展开)
2 有用 米朵 2022-01-30 22:25:17
写得有一点点dry,但是每一个point都很有意思,从社会的各个层面重现了战后德国的面貌。后面说到政治和宣传我不是太感兴趣,不过也是德国最终成为民主国家的重要因素。有意思的好书。
0 有用 地下宇航员 2025-11-08 04:06:03 加拿大
7/10.
0 有用 Vince 2024-12-04 21:34:21 上海
经济上,德国经历了大规模的废墟拆除重建,资源匮乏饥荒及黑市的繁荣;社会形态方面,难民和战俘大规模迁徙带来的流离失所,士兵归家后心理和地位的双重失落,妇女在人数上和重建社会方面重要性凸显,同时盟军特别是美国大兵成为德国女人的梦中情郎。战后教育方面,盟军对德国人先入为主的刻板印象导致非常谨慎的策略,禁止盟军与当地人接触,放开脚步缓慢,相反的,苏军的共产主义理想自然而然的将德国民众视为“解放对象”,迅速... 经济上,德国经历了大规模的废墟拆除重建,资源匮乏饥荒及黑市的繁荣;社会形态方面,难民和战俘大规模迁徙带来的流离失所,士兵归家后心理和地位的双重失落,妇女在人数上和重建社会方面重要性凸显,同时盟军特别是美国大兵成为德国女人的梦中情郎。战后教育方面,盟军对德国人先入为主的刻板印象导致非常谨慎的策略,禁止盟军与当地人接触,放开脚步缓慢,相反的,苏军的共产主义理想自然而然的将德国民众视为“解放对象”,迅速与民众打成一片。艺术文化方面,盟军特别是美国,积极鼓励德国以抽象艺术和装饰艺术为先锋的艺术流派,使德国艺术重要性迅速崛起,苏联支持的是更加保守和具像化的艺术形式,落了下风。社会思潮方面,重点不会是集体大反思,每天拿着喇叭说要痛定思痛,而是自知难辞其咎又无力辩驳太多,说多了又是错,只能熬着。 (展开)