Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past

The Politics of Amnesty and Integration

By: Norbert Frei, Fritz Stern (Foreword by), Joel Golb (Translator)

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Hardcover | 27 August 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, at home questions of responsibility and retribution were not so clear. In this masterful examination of Germany under Adenauer, Norbert Frei shows that, beginning in 1949, the West German government dramatically reversed the denazification policies of the immediate postwar period and initiated a new "Vergangenheitspolitik," or "policy for the past," which has had enormous consequences reaching into the present.

Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past chronicles how amnesty laws for Nazi officials were passed unanimously and civil servants who had been dismissed in 1945 were reinstated liberally-and how a massive popular outcry led to the release of war criminals who had been condemned by the Allies. These measures and movements represented more than just the rehabilitation of particular individuals. Frei argues that the amnesty process delegitimized the previous political expurgation administered by the Allies and, on a deeper level, served to satisfy the collective psychic needs of a society longing for a clean break with the unparalleled political and moral catastrophe it had undergone in the 1940s. Thus the era of Adenauer devolved into a scandal-ridden period of reintegration at any cost. Frei's work brilliantly and chillingly explores how the collective will of the German people, expressed through mass allegiance to new consensus-oriented democratic parties, cast off responsibility for the horrors of the war and Holocaust, effectively silencing engagement with the enormities of the Nazi past.

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"One of the most important contributions to the debate on Germany's Nazi past." - Fritz Stern, author of Einstein's German World

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Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
A Legislation for the Past: Parliamentary and Administrative Junctures	p. 1
The Amnesty Law of 1949	p. 5
The "Liquidation" of Denazification	p. 27
The Rehabilitation and Pensioning of the "131ers"	p. 41
The Amnesty Law of 1954	p. 67
A Past-Political Obsession: The Problem of the War-Criminals	p. 93
The War-Crimes Issue Preceding the Bonn Republic	p. 97
The Politicization of the War-Criminal Question (1949-50)	p. 121
The Debate Under the Sign of Rearmament (1950-51)	p. 147
A "General Treaty" instead of a "General Amnesty" (1951-52)	p. 177
The Windup of the War-Criminal Problem	p. 203
Fixing Past-Political Limits: Judicial Norms and Allied Intervention	p. 235
The Hedler Affair and the Establishment of Criminal-Legal Norms (1950)	p. 237
The Rise and Banning of the Socialist Reich Party (1951-52)	p. 251
The Naumann Affair and the Role of the Allies (1953)	p. 277
Conclusion	p. 303
Postscript to the American Edition	p. 313
Acknowledgments	p. 315
Notes	p. 319
Sources and Literature	p. 417
Index	p. 461
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