From The Ashes Of Disgrace: A Journal From Germany, 1945-1955

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A thoughtful and civilized firsthand document of Germany's first phase of resurrection. Contents Introduction One. Letters First Visit 1945 First Days in Germany: Frankfurt, Bad Homburg Second Visit 1946 Later Visits 1950-1955 Two. Recollections 1947-1948, Report 1950 Preface Three Recollections Report of Visit in 1950 Three. Conversations and Observations, 1951-1952 Preface Alfred Toppe: Military Pride and Pensions Dr. Reibert: A Candid Soldier Amateur Machiavellianism and Erich Mende Impressions of Public Life A Sunday Dinner A Family of Former Nazis Evening at a Publisher's House, and the Next Morning Weekend at the Mosel Otto Klepper: The Importance of the Third World Gerhard Graf von Schwerin: Military Critic of Rearmament Opinions about Emst Reuter Adolf Heusinger: the First Soldier A German Postwar Boy Kurt von Tippelskirch: a Historian Anxiety about the Russians On Anxiety about Attacks from the Air Anxiety in Germany, A Panel Discussion Frido von Sengei und Etteilin: Soldier, Scholar, and Educator Max Horkheimer and Frederick Pollock Four. Observations and Conversations, 1954-1955 Preface to Part Four Socializing with Businessmen Afterthought on Malicious Joy Tax Evasions Hans-Rudolf Müller-Schwefe: Life in the Soviet Zone German Television Building Activities and Rentals Sense of Duty Theodor Steltzer: A Study of German Youth Wilhelm Meinberg: A Neo-Nazi Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg: Military Self-Criticism, the Middle East, and World War III Günther Blumentritt: France and EDC; History of the German Officers' Corps Georg von Sodenstem: "New Look” and China Democracy in Germany Karl Silex: Neutralist A Journalist: Anti-Americanism; Writing between the Lines Rudolf Pechel: Writing under Threats of Persecution; German Overtures to the East; The Danger of Renazification Louis Muller: German-French Relations Franz Haider: Political and Military Views Observations on Informal Communications and the Blank Office Adelbert Weinstein and Karl Heinrich Heifer Fraternization 1955: The Committee for European Security of the German Bundestag Franz Josef Strauss Wolf Graf Baudissin: The Spirit of the German Army Fritz Beiendsen: Upper-Class Juste Milieu West Germany in 1955: Excerpts from an Informal Talk Index