Tables Preface Abbreviations A Note on Wehrmacht Generals' Ranks Introduction Prologue: Wehrmacht Generals in Defeat, 1945-49 The Generals Regroup: The Attempts to Establish a Consensus, 1950/51 The Institutional Response: The Blank Office, the Gehlen Organization, and the Control Group, 1951-56 The Pressure Group Response: Generals, Veterans' Associations, and Rearmament, 1951-56 Rearmament, Generals, and Society: The Press, Politics, and Public Opinion, 1949-59 Rearmament, the Past, and the Law: Wehrmacht Generals on Trial, 1951-59 Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index
Searle provides the first comprehensive study of former Wehrmacht generals during the 1950s.
ALARIC SEARLE teaches modern and contemporary history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, where he is currently working on a project on military intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries. He recently co-edited An Anglo-German Dialogue: The Munich Lectures on the History of International Relations (2000), and authored the Clausewitz Forum Occasional Paper 1/2000, Herbert Rosinski (1903-1962) und seine Bedeutung fuer die Clausewitz-Forschung (2000). His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Canadian Journal of History, Intelligence and National Security, International History Review, War in History and Journal of Slavic Military Studies.
?[S]earle directs the spotlight of his inquiry into areas hitherto
poorl lit and thereby, expands our knowledge of the German security
debates of the 1950s.?-German Studies Review
?[S]earle has raised some provocative questions about the origins
of the Bundeswehr and the relative success of democratization at
different levels in the former military
hierarchy.?-H-German.net
?Alaric Searle adds to the literature on West Germany's struggle
with the Nazi past, here within the context of German rearmament in
the 1950s. Using a vast selection of German records, Searle
examines how Hitler's former generals involved themselves in
debates over West Germany's integration into NATO and how their
collaboration with Adolf Hitler defined their postwar role. This is
a valuable study....Successful cooperation between pragmatic former
generals and their civilian superiors in creating a new type of
German army together with a conscious suppression of the
Wehrmacht's worst crimes would delay a full reckoning with the past
until after the Cold War. Searle shows nicely how this curious
dichotomy occurred.?-The Journal of Military History
?Searle provides an important examination of the role of former
Wehrmacht generals in the seminal event of early post-war German
history, the rearmament of the Federal Republic. This is a work
that deserves a wide readership among historians of modern Germany
as well as among political scientists concerned with the influence
of interest groups and organizational behavior on the development
of government policy.?-Sehepunkte
?Some may dissent from Searle's judicious and thoughtful
conclusions, but the book is especially valuable for readers new to
the subject of transitions to democracy and reestablishment of
military professionalism in Germany.?-American Historical
Review
"�S�earle directs the spotlight of his inquiry into areas hitherto
poorl lit and thereby, expands our knowledge of the German security
debates of the 1950s."-German Studies Review
"�S�earle has raised some provocative questions about the origins
of the Bundeswehr and the relative success of democratization at
different levels in the former military
hierarchy."-H-German.net
"[S]earle directs the spotlight of his inquiry into areas hitherto
poorl lit and thereby, expands our knowledge of the German security
debates of the 1950s."-German Studies Review
"[S]earle has raised some provocative questions about the origins
of the Bundeswehr and the relative success of democratization at
different levels in the former military
hierarchy."-H-German.net
"Searle provides an important examination of the role of former
Wehrmacht generals in the seminal event of early post-war German
history, the rearmament of the Federal Republic. This is a work
that deserves a wide readership among historians of modern Germany
as well as among political scientists concerned with the influence
of interest groups and organizational behavior on the development
of government policy."-Sehepunkte
"Some may dissent from Searle's judicious and thoughtful
conclusions, but the book is especially valuable for readers new to
the subject of transitions to democracy and reestablishment of
military professionalism in Germany."-American Historical
Review
"Alaric Searle adds to the literature on West Germany's struggle
with the Nazi past, here within the context of German rearmament in
the 1950s. Using a vast selection of German records, Searle
examines how Hitler's former generals involved themselves in
debates over West Germany's integration into NATO and how their
collaboration with Adolf Hitler defined their postwar role. This is
a valuable study....Successful cooperation between pragmatic former
generals and their civilian superiors in creating a new type of
German army together with a conscious suppression of the
Wehrmacht's worst crimes would delay a full reckoning with the past
until after the Cold War. Searle shows nicely how this curious
dichotomy occurred."-The Journal of Military History
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
