Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

by Noah Benezra Strote
Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

by Noah Benezra Strote

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Overview

A bold new interpretation of Germany’s democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on the generation that shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction

Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country and emerged as one of the leading nations of the Western liberal world. In his debut work, Noah Strote analyzes this remarkable turnaround and challenges the widely held perception that the Western Allies—particularly the United States—were responsible for Germany’s transformation. Instead, Strote draws from never-before-seen material to show how common opposition to Adolf Hitler united the fractious groups that had once vied for supremacy under the Weimar Republic, Germany’s first democracy (1918-1933). His character-driven narrative follows ten Germans of rival worldviews who experienced the breakdown of Weimar society, lived under the Nazi dictatorship, and together assumed founding roles in the democratic reconstruction.
 
While many have imagined postwar Germany as the product of foreign-led democratization, this study highlights the crucial role of indigenous ideas and institutions that stretched back decades before Hitler. Foregrounding the resolution of key conflicts that crippled the country’s first democracy, Strote presents a new model for understanding the origins of today’s Federal Republic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300219050
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 05/30/2017
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Noah Benezra Strote is assistant professor of European history at North Carolina State University. He is a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Conflict 19

1 The Constitutional Crisis 23

2 Sectarian Visions of the Economy 46

3 The Battle over National Education 69

4 The Problem of Culture 94

5 Two Competing Ideals for a Third Reich 119

Part 2 Partnership 147

6 The Creation of Constitutional Consensus 151

7 Christian Economics? 175

8 The Education of Western Europeans 197

9 The Culture of Christian Partnership 220

10 Living with Liberal Democracy 243

Conclusion 268

Notes 275

Index 341

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