Democracy Imposed: U.S. Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945-1949

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Yale University Press, 01/01/1995 - 452 páginas
How successful was the United States in attempting to impose a democratic system on Germany after the Second World War? Did U.S. occupation policy actually change German society and attitudes? In this book Richard L. Merritt addresses these questions from a novel perspective. Instead of studying what German political leaders and intellectuals thought about the U.S. occupation, Merritt explores for the first time the response of the ordinary German people, analyzing data from public opinion surveys conducted largely by the American Military Government beginning in 1945.
 

Índice

Americas Wartime Images of Germany
23
U S Occupation Policy
49
Assessing German Perspectives
70
National Socialism in Retrospect
89
Nazi Crimes Against the World
121
Nuremberg and After
146
Denazification
179
Coming to Terms with the Past
208
Socialization to Democracy
270
Media as Democratizers
291
Federal Governance
316
Creating the Future
349
German Society Changed?
387
References
413
Index
437
Direitos de autor

U S Military as Mentors
239

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Acerca do autor (1995)

Richard L. Merritt is professor of political science and research professor in communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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