The Resource The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s, Werner Sollors
The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s, Werner Sollors
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- Summary
- In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers, visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 390 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction : before success
- March 29, 1945 : between the no longer and the not yet : peace breaks out gradually in Central Europe
- May 7, 1945 : malevolent rectangles of spectral horror : a photographer and his subject
- June 23, 1945 : after Dachau : of private vengeance, collective guilt, life in ruins, population transfers, and displaced persons
- October 4, 1945 : dilemmas of denazification : Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, military occupation, and militant democracy
- January 8, 1946 : are you occupied territory? : black G.I.s in fiction of the occupation
- April 24, 1946 : the race problem in the house on Lilac Road : occupation children and the film Toxi
- August 20, 1948
- May 6, 1977 : Heil, Johnny : Billy Wilder's A foreign affair, or, The denazification of Erika von Schlutow
- Coda : comic relief?
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9780674052437
- Label
- The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s
- Title
- The temptation of despair
- Title remainder
- tales of the 1940s
- Statement of responsibility
- Werner Sollors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers, visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sollors, Werner
- Dewey number
- 940.55/4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D829.G3
- LC item number
- S56 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Reconstruction (1939-1951)
- Denazification
- Social psychology
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)
- Denazification
- Social psychology
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Label
- The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s, Werner Sollors
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction : before success -- March 29, 1945 : between the no longer and the not yet : peace breaks out gradually in Central Europe -- May 7, 1945 : malevolent rectangles of spectral horror : a photographer and his subject -- June 23, 1945 : after Dachau : of private vengeance, collective guilt, life in ruins, population transfers, and displaced persons -- October 4, 1945 : dilemmas of denazification : Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, military occupation, and militant democracy -- January 8, 1946 : are you occupied territory? : black G.I.s in fiction of the occupation -- April 24, 1946 : the race problem in the house on Lilac Road : occupation children and the film Toxi -- August 20, 1948 -- May 6, 1977 : Heil, Johnny : Billy Wilder's A foreign affair, or, The denazification of Erika von Schlutow -- Coda : comic relief? -- Afterword
- Control code
- 861478320
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 390 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674052437
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013037693
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861478320
- Label
- The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s, Werner Sollors
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction : before success -- March 29, 1945 : between the no longer and the not yet : peace breaks out gradually in Central Europe -- May 7, 1945 : malevolent rectangles of spectral horror : a photographer and his subject -- June 23, 1945 : after Dachau : of private vengeance, collective guilt, life in ruins, population transfers, and displaced persons -- October 4, 1945 : dilemmas of denazification : Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, military occupation, and militant democracy -- January 8, 1946 : are you occupied territory? : black G.I.s in fiction of the occupation -- April 24, 1946 : the race problem in the house on Lilac Road : occupation children and the film Toxi -- August 20, 1948 -- May 6, 1977 : Heil, Johnny : Billy Wilder's A foreign affair, or, The denazification of Erika von Schlutow -- Coda : comic relief? -- Afterword
- Control code
- 861478320
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 390 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674052437
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013037693
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861478320
Subject
- Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany
- Social psychology -- Germany
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
- Art
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence
- Denazification
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