15. The Value of Knowledge: Western Intelligence Agencies and Former Members of the SS, Gestapo and Wehrmacht during the Early Cold War / 1. Introduction: Reframing Occupation as a System of Rule / Michael Wala. 2. Preoccupied: Wartime Training for Post-War Occupation in the United States, 1940-5 / Susan L. Carruthers ; 3. Benign Occupations: The Allied Occupation of Germany and the International Law of Occupation / Peter M. R. Stirk -- Part 2. The Past in the Present: Transitional Justice and Managing the Nazi Legacy: 4. Transitional Justice? Denazification in the US Zone of Occupied Germany / Rebecca Boehling ; 5. The Allied Internment of German Civilians in Occupied Germany: Cooperation and Conflict in the Western Zones, 1945-9 / Andrew H. Beattie ; 6. What Do You Do with a Dead Nazi? Allied Policy on the Execution and Disposal of War Criminals, 1945-55 / Caroline Sharples -- Part 3. Doing Occupation: Image and Reality: 7. `My Home, Your Castle': British Requisitioning of German Homes in Westphalia / Bettina Blum ; 8. Game Plan for Democracy: Sport and Youth in Occupied West Germany / Heather L. Dichter ; 9. Occupying the Environment: German Hunters and the American Occupation / Douglas Bell -- Part 4. Experiencing Occupation: Daily Life and Personal Relationships: 10. The Sexualized Landscape of Post-War Germany and the Politics of Cross-Racial Intimacy in the US Zone / Nadja Klopprogge ; 11. Shared Spaces: Social Encounters between French and Germans in Occupied Freiburg, 1945-55 / Ann-Kristin Glockner ; 12. `Gosh ... I Think I'm in a Dream!!': Subjective Experiences and Daily Life in the British Zone / Daniel Cowling -- Part 5. Mediating Occupation: Interactions, Intermediaries and Legacies: 13. `We Are Glad They Are Here, But We Are Not Rejoicing!': The Catholic Clergy under French and American Occupation / Johannes Kuber ; 14. From Denazification to Renazification? West German Government Officials after 1945 / Dominik Rigoll ; 15. The Value of Knowledge: Western Intelligence Agencies and Former Members of the SS, Gestapo and Wehrmacht during the Early Cold War / Michael Wala.
Summary:
Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War. Combining a history from below with a top-down perspective, the volume explores the origins, impacts, and legacies of the occupations of the western zones of Germany by the United States, Britain and France, examining complex yet topical issues that often arise as a consequence of war including regime change, transitional justice, everyday life under occupation, the role of intermediaries, and the multifaceted relationship between occupiers and occupied. Adopting a novel set of approaches that puts questions of power, social relations, gender, race, and the environment centre stage, it moves beyond existing narratives to place the occupation within a broader framework of continuity and change in post-war western Europe. Incorporating essays from 16 international scholars, this volume provides a substantial contribution to the emerging fields of occupation studies and the comparative history of post-war Europe.
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