Langbeschreibung
"This book brings fresh light to previously marginalized subject in German history. It is an original approach, up-to-date written without scholarly jargon, easily accessible to students, both at undergraduate and graduate. It is highly focused departing from the usual "histories" of a single country arguing for the "two German states", and the three political systems."
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: The freedom to conform.- 2. Nazi Germany, 1933-1945: Nonconformity as "degeneration".- 3. Democratic Reconstruction under Allied Occupation, 1945-1949: Neither tradition nor "degeneration".- 4. The Soviet Occupation Zone, 1945-1949: Building new structures of conformity.- 5. The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990: Conformity as alienation.- 6. West Germany, 1949-1990: Nonconformity as alienation.- 7. Conclusion.