Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

Discussions on every day life in the Weimar Republic, pre-anschluss Austria, Third Reich and the occupied territories. Hosted by Vikki.
Post Reply
User avatar
Marcus
Member
Posts: 33963
Joined: 08 Mar 2002, 23:35
Location: Europe
Contact:

Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

#1

Post by Marcus » 11 Sep 2010, 15:19

This sticky is the place to post recommendations on good books dealing with occupation and denazification of Germany and Austria and the German Prisoners of War held after the end of the war in Europe.

/Marcus

If you buy through the below links you not only get the books you want but you also support the forum while shopping!
* AHF Bookstore
* Amazon.com (UK, Germany)

Panzermahn
Member
Posts: 3639
Joined: 13 Jul 2002, 04:51
Location: Malaysia

Re: Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

#2

Post by Panzermahn » 11 Sep 2010, 16:19

Professor Perry Biddiscombe wrote an excellent book on the Denazification topic, The Denazification of Germany: A History 1945-1950 which emphasized the resistance of the Germans against social and economic controls and restrictions implemented by the Allied Control Council.

On the subject of German POWs, if one could read German, the most exhausting study of German POWs during and after WW2 was the 22 volumes which edited by Erich Maschke (Richard Hargreaves kindly provided a list of the series at this link)

http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic ... 33&t=32266

1/1 Böhme, Kurt W.: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Jugoslawien, 1941-1949. (Mit einer Einführung von Erich Maschke zur gesamten Schriftenreihe.) München 1962
1/2 Böhme, Kurt W.: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Jugoslawien, 1949-1953. München 1964
2. Cartellieri, Diether: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion - Die Lagergesellschaft. Eine Untersuchung der zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen in den Kriegsgefangenenlagern. München 1967
3. Fleischhacker, Hedwig: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion - Der Faktor Hunger. (Mit einer Einführung von Erich Masch-ke.) München 1965
4. Ratza, Werner: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion - Der Faktor Arbeit. (Mit einer Einführung von Erich Maschke.) München 1973
5/1—3. Bährens, Kurt: Deutsche in Straflagern und Gefängnissen der Sowjetunion. (3 Bde.) München 1965
6. Schwarz, Wolfgang: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion - Aus dem kulturellen Leben. (Mit einer Einführung von Erich Maschke.) München 1969
7. Böhme, Kurt W.: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in sowjetischer Hand- Eine Bilanz. (Mit einer Beilage von Johann Anton.) München 1966
8. Röbel, Gert: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion -Antifa. München 1974
9. Boss, Otto: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Polen und der Tschechoslowakei. München 1974
10/1 Jung, Hermann: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in amerikanischer Hand - USA. München 1972
10/2 Böhme, Kurt W.: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in amerikanischer Hand - Europa. München 1973
11/1 Wolff, Helmut: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in britischer Hand - Ein Überblick. München 1974
11/2 Faulk, Henry: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Großbritannien -Re-education. München 1970
12. Jung, Hermann: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Gewahrsam Belgiens, der Niederlande und Luxemburgs. München 1966
13. Böhme, Kurt w.: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in französischer Hand. (Mit einem Beitrag von Horst Wagenblaß.) München 1971
14. Böhme, Kurt w.: Geist und Kultur der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen im Westen. München 1968
15. Maschke, Erich in Verbindung mit Kurt w. Böhme, Diether Cartellieri, Werner Ratza, Hergard Röbel, Emil Schieche und Helmut Wolff: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges - Eine Zusammenfassung. München 1974
Beiheft 1. Reck, Michael (Pseudonym): Tagebuch aus sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenschaft 1945-1949. Bearb. von Kurt W. Böhme. München 1967
Beiheft 2. Aufzeichnungen über die Kriegsgefangenschaft im Westen. Bearb. von Kurt W. Böhme und Helmut Wolff. München 1973


JamesL
Member
Posts: 1649
Joined: 28 Oct 2004, 01:03
Location: NJ USA

Re: Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

#3

Post by JamesL » 02 Oct 2010, 20:50

The US Army and the Occupation of Germany 1944-1946
http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Occ-GY/


The Occupation Forces in Europe Series 1945-1948
http://www.hqusareur.army.mil/history/#occupation

Rob - wssob2
Member
Posts: 2387
Joined: 15 Apr 2002, 21:29
Location: MA, USA

Re: Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

#4

Post by Rob - wssob2 » 03 Oct 2010, 19:52

The 1969 book Denazification by Constantine Fitzgibbon is a good start.

David Thompson
Forum Staff
Posts: 23724
Joined: 20 Jul 2002, 20:52
Location: USA

Re: Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

#5

Post by David Thompson » 16 Aug 2011, 18:53

There are a large number of texts available in pdf format in the University of Wisconsin's Germany under reconstruction website at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bi ... y.GerRecon

User avatar
Gorque
Member
Posts: 1662
Joined: 11 Feb 2009, 19:20
Location: Clocktown

Re: Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

#6

Post by Gorque » 17 Jan 2015, 15:39

I recommend Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R.M. Douglas, Yale University Press 2012

User avatar
Haven
Member
Posts: 146
Joined: 14 Sep 2015, 07:27
Location: Los Angeles
Contact:

Re: Recommended reading on the Occupation and Denazification

#7

Post by Haven » 30 Sep 2015, 05:40

Image
This book closely examines the turmoil in the German Protestant churches in the immediate postwar years as they attempted to come to terms with the recent past. Reeling from the impact of war, the churches addressed the consequences of cooperation with the regime and the treatment of Jews. In Germany, the Protestant Church consisted of 28 autonomous regional churches. During the Nazi years, these churches formed into various alliances. One group, the German Christian Church, openly aligned itself with the Nazis. The rest were cautiously opposed to the regime or tried to remain noncommittal. The internal debates, however, involved every group and centered on issues of belief that were important to all. Important theologians such as Karl Barth were instrumental in pressing these issues forward. While not an exhaustive study of Protestantism during the Nazi years, A Church Divided breaks new ground in the discussion of responsibility, guilt, and the Nazi past.

Post Reply

Return to “Life in the Third Reich & Weimar Republic”