Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 (Audible Audio Edition): Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside - translator, Rob Shapiro, Random House Audio: Audible Books & Originals

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How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cit…