Denazification in Soviet-occupied Germany
Subtitle: Brandenburg, 1945-1948
By: Timothy R. Vogt
Series: Harvard historical studies -- 137; Harvard historical studies -- v. 137
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Denazification; Military government -- Germany -- Brandenburg -- History -- 20th century; Brandenburg (Germany) -- Politics and government; Germany (East) -- Politics and government; Soviet Union -- Armed forces -- Germany -- Brandenburg
Description: "In his study of Brandenburg, Germany, Timothy Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German historians and the "sovietization" interpretive model that has dominated western studies. He argues that Soviet denazification was neither an effective purge of society nor part of a methodical sovietization of the eastern zone.

Instead, in a detailed study, denazification is pictured as a failure, which fell short of its goals and was eventually abandoned by the frustrated Soviet and German leadership.".

"The case example of Brandenburg is an effective means of putting flesh and blood into the study and giving the reader insight into both broader developments and the human actors who propelled events. The result is an analysis that is based not simply on policymakers and their policies, but rather on how policy was continuously reformulated in response to developments at the local level.".

"The study encompasses significant aspects of contemporary European history: everyday life in Nazi Germany, Germany's postwar coming to terms with its Nazi past, the Cold War division of Germany, postwar Soviet policy, and the construction of a one-party communist system in Eastern Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-309) and index
Table of contents: title: The origins of Soviet denazification policy; title: The purge begins; title: Expropriation, land reform, and the PGs; title: The denazification experiment; title: The denazification commissions and the purge; title: The demographics of denazification; title: The varieties of guilt and innocence; title: Responses to the Nazi period and the PGs in the new Germany