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Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948

Christopher Knowles

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Description:By adopting a unique biographical approach, this book examines the aims and intentions of twelve important and influential individuals who worked for the British Military Government in occupied Germany. In the first three years after the end of the Second World War, British policy was distinctive and governed by a collective 'elite.' The British Zone was the largest and economically most important of all four zones. Although the three Western Allies all ended in the same place with the creation of an independent Federal Republic of (West) Germany in 1949, they took different paths to get there. The role of the British is the most misunderstood of all four allies. Winning the Peace strikes a balance between earlier self-congratulatory accounts of the occupation, and the later more critical historiography. It highlights diversity of aims and personal backgrounds and in so doing explains some of the complexities and apparent contradictions in British occupation policy. The book concludes that, despite diversity among those studied, all twelve individuals followed a policy described as the 'three Rs' - Reconstruction, Renewal and Reconciliation - rather than the 'four Ds' - De-militarisation, De-nazification, De-industrialisation, and Democratisation - highlighted in earlier histories of the occupation. Whilst reflecting on the role of human agency, Christopher Knowles examines why individuals sometimes failed to achieve what they originally intended, and how their aims and perceptions changed over time to reveal broader political, sociological and cultural forces, outside their direct control. This book is an innovative study for those interested in allied occupation and the post-war history of Germany.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948. To get started finding Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: By adopting a unique biographical approach, this book examines the aims and intentions of twelve important and influential individuals who worked for the British Military Government in occupied Germany. In the first three years after the end of the Second World War, British policy was distinctive and governed by a collective 'elite.' The British Zone was the largest and economically most important of all four zones. Although the three Western Allies all ended in the same place with the creation of an independent Federal Republic of (West) Germany in 1949, they took different paths to get there. The role of the British is the most misunderstood of all four allies. Winning the Peace strikes a balance between earlier self-congratulatory accounts of the occupation, and the later more critical historiography. It highlights diversity of aims and personal backgrounds and in so doing explains some of the complexities and apparent contradictions in British occupation policy. The book concludes that, despite diversity among those studied, all twelve individuals followed a policy described as the 'three Rs' - Reconstruction, Renewal and Reconciliation - rather than the 'four Ds' - De-militarisation, De-nazification, De-industrialisation, and Democratisation - highlighted in earlier histories of the occupation. Whilst reflecting on the role of human agency, Christopher Knowles examines why individuals sometimes failed to achieve what they originally intended, and how their aims and perceptions changed over time to reveal broader political, sociological and cultural forces, outside their direct control. This book is an innovative study for those interested in allied occupation and the post-war history of Germany.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948. To get started finding Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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