EAN: 9780241303498

OUT OF THE DARKNESS - FRANK TRENTMANN GEBUNDEN

A Telegraph and Der Spiegel Book of the YearSueddeutsche Zeitung's Number One Most Important
Political Book of 2023 Die Zeit  ZDF  Deutschlandfunk  taz Number One  Best Non-Fiction Books
December 2023 and January 2024 A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of
Europe  from the Second World War to today In 1945  Germany lay in ruins  morally and
materially. The German people stood condemned by history  responsible for a horrifying genocide
and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe
welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time  it pursued a controversially rigid
fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany
descended into the darkness of the Nazis  but this book asks another vital question: how  and
how far  have the Germans since reinvented themselves? Trentmann tells the dramatic story of
the Germans from the middle of the Second World War  through the Cold War and the division into
East and West  to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunited nation's search for a place in
the world. Their journey is marked by extraordinary moral struggles: guilt  shame and limited
amends  wealth versus welfare  tolerance versus racism  compassion and complicity. Through a
range of voices - German soldiers and German Jews  environmentalists and coal miners  families
and churches  volunteers  migrants and populists - Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising
portrait over 80 years of the conflicted people at the centre of Europe.

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