Description
| Product ID: | 9781800243507 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans |
| Subtitle: | The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 |
| Authors: | Author: Daniel Cowling |
| Page Count: | 480 |
| Subjects: | History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, History, History: specific events and topics, Social and cultural history, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, History: specific events & topics, Social & cultural history, The Cold War, Germany, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The history of the British occupation of Germany, told through the eyes of the people who were there. Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship.Such was the broken state of the nation in which a British civilian and military force arrived in the spring and summer of 1945. Their zone of occupation was the northern and northwestern part of Germany, the country’s former industrial heartland. Their task? To build democracy from the ruins of Hitler’s Reich, and, having defeated Nazism on the battlefield, to ‘win the peace’ by eradicating Nazism from German hearts and minds.As well as offering a vivid narrative of the British occupation in political and military terms, from the Potsdam Conference to the Berlin Airlift, Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans explores the day-to-day experiences of the ordinary Britons who worked for the Control Commission for Germany between 1945 and 1949. Some reconstructed bridges and schools, supervised the destruction of military matériel and brought fugitive Nazis to justice; while others became entangled in black marketeering, corruption and sexual scandal. In time, they would find themselves on the front line of the Cold War, as irreconcilable tensions divided Europe between East and West. |
| Imprint Name: | Apollo |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-28 |
