Adenauer’s Bargain

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At the beginning of Aftermath, Harald Jähner poses the question: How did West Germans, after twelve years of Nazi dictatorship and four years in historical limbo without their own state—“a kind of no-man’s-time,” he calls it—“gradually become ordinary citizens again?” He seeks the answer in the “bitter education” of everyday life in the early postwar […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/adenauers-bargain-aftermath-harald-jahner/

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