Title: Recasting West German elites : higher civil servants, business leaders, and physicians in Hesse between Nazism and democracy, 1945-1955 /
Authors: Hayse, Michael R.
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences) Germany Hesse History.; Hesse (Germany) Politics and government
Abstract: "The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in the peculiar and paradoxical legacy of these groups' evasive selective memory, by which they cast themselves as victims of the Third Reich rather than its erstwhile supporters.