Disciplining Germany - Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War

Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War



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English | ISBN: 081433329X | 2007 | 392 pages | PDF | 3 MB

During Hitler's reign, the Nazis deliberately developed and exploited a youthful image and used youth to define their political and social hierarchies. After the war, with Hitler gone but still requiring cultural exorcism, many intellectuals, authors, and filmmakers turned to these images of youth to navigate and negotiate the most difficult questions of Germany's recent, nefarious past. Focusing on youth, education, and crime allowed postwar Germans to claim one last realm of sovereignty against the Allies' own emphatic project of reeducation. Youth, reeducation, and reconstruction became important sites for the occupied to confront not only the recent past, but to negotiate the present occupation and, ultimately, direct the future of the German nation.
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