#postwargermany

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

BEFORE YOU WERE METAL-PUNK: PATCHING UP A VEST IN THE '40s.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Army patches and German coats of arms being worn by American teenagers, Heidelberg, Germany, c. 1947, from a LIFE magazine article/photo-series titled "Heidleberg High" depicting the children of American military members living in Heidelberg, Germany

Source: www.vintag.es/2021/02/american-teenagers-in-heidelberg.html.

[philipp-zechner]

Street scene . . . . . . . . . . . . #streetscenesmag #streetscene #urbandesign #urbanismo #zechner #graffiti #fivesixmag #colorful #postwargermany #architecture #accidentalbeauty #aintbad #noicemag #newtopographics https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5_I_QpLon/?igshid=ntna8gms4wb4

[chriswolak]

Exciting #bookmail today from @fbfnewyork — NIGHTMARE IN BERLIN by Hans Fallada. If you’re interested in German Literature follow Frankfurt Book Fair New York on Facebook. Great info and regular giveaways, too. 🇩🇪 📚🇩🇪 #hansfallada #nightmareinberlin #germanlit #postwargermany

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Blue Fraulein

Collage on cradleboard, 11x14, 2015

[uny2xaid]

#fbf #postwargermany playing at #tommys always so #good

[cornteens2020]

I checked this out (real live library book! gasp!) expecting a more general overview of post-war events.I ended up mostly skimming it; it got more detailed than I was interested in as far as names, dates, trial info - not to mention crime details.

I recently watched Generation War and thought, again, how post-war Germany hasn't been explained enough. It was a crazy place. Back to the book...Nazis. A country full of 'em. Common sense dictates there was no way to somehow bring an entire country to trial (though Versailles did a pretty good job, I guess). However, I had always assumed that actual officers/official figures were punished, given the evidence against them.

Quite the opposite, sadly. Nazis After Hitler provides general information of how and why so many (read: pretty much all of them) "cheated justice" and individual stories of men and women "whom escaped justice."

The main reason (as far as what I got from the book): people didn't want to really deal with what had happened, weren't equipped to handle the prosecutions and/or were simply racist, and didn't care.

What continues to boggle my mind is the level of denial. It's hard to show you what I mean, without quoting extensively from the book (or giving a history background lesson). One story from the book: Franz Stangl was in charge of Treblinka and given life for murdering 900,000+ people.

In 1967, that is. He went free for some 20 years. The trial annoyed his wife who insisted  Stangl "never gave the impression of being a Nazi {or} showed the slightest sympathy for them {or} said anything against Jews."

I'd imagine most people just assume all those terrible Natzees was brought to justice by our valiant Allies. They imagine wrong, and this book takes its time to show you exactly how.

Good for the history lesson, main complaint from is the biased language, it can read a little dramatically. Overall recommended.

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Fingerprint World

Collage on panel, 11x14, 2015

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Lady/Bug 

Collage on cradleboard, 11x14, 2015

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German Pinup

Collage on cradleboard, 11x14 inches, 2015