- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 880
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780241303498
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Trentmann, Frank
A Telegraph and Der Spiegel Book of the Year
Sueddeutsche Zeitung''s Number One Most Important Political Book of 2023
Die Zeit, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, taz Number One, Best Non-Fiction Books December 2023 and January 2024
A groundbreakingnew history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today
In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital question: how, and how far, have the Germans since reinvented themselves?
Trentmann tells the dramatic stor