Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation...

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Mikkel Dack (Rowan University, New Jersey)

Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany

The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation

Mikkel Dack (Rowan University, New Jersey)

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Cambridge University Press
30 March 2023

European history; Military history; Second World War; Fascism & Nazism; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship

In the wake of World War II, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Europe. Between 1945 and 1949, 20 million political questionnaires, or Fragebögen, were distributed by American, British, French, and Soviet armies to anxious Germans who had to prove their non-Nazi status to gain employment. Drafted by university professors and social scientists, these surveys deﬁned much of the denaziﬁcation experience and were immensely consequential to the material and emotional recovery of Germans. In Everyday Denaziﬁcation in Postwar Germany, Mikkel Dack draws the curtain to reveal what denaziﬁcation looked like on the ground and in practice and how the highly criticized vetting program impacted the lives of individual Germans and their families as they recovered from the war. Accessing recently declassiﬁed documents, this book challenges traditional interpretations by illustrating the positive elements of the denaziﬁcation campaign and recounting a more comprehensive history, one of mid-level Allied planners, civil affairs soldiers, and regular German citizens. The Fragebogen functions as a window into this everyday history.

By: Mikkel Dack (Rowan University New Jersey)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9781009216333
ISBN 10: 1009216333
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 30 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mikkel Dack is Assistant Professor of History at Rowan University and Director of Research at the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights.

Reviews for Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation

'This is a fascinating study of everyday denazification on the basis of the answers to the 131 questions of the Allied questionnaire that sought to identify former Nazi perpetrators in the German population after the defeat of the Third Reich.' Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill