
The Bitter Taste of Victory
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In May 1945 Germany surrendered, and Britain, America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding their zones of occupation. Most urgent for the Allies in this divided, defeated country were food, water and sanitation, but from the start they were anxious to provide for the minds as well as the physical needs of the German people. Reconstruction was to be cultural as well as practical: denazification and re-education would be key to future peace and the arts crucial in modelling alternative, less militaristic, ways of life. Germany was to be reborn; its citizens as well as its cities were to be reconstructed; the mindset of the Third Reich was to be obliterated.
When, later that year, twenty-two senior Nazis were put in the dock at Nuremberg, writers and artists including Rebecca West, Evelyn Waugh, John Dos Passos and Laura Knight were there to tell the world about a trial intended to ensure that tyrannous dictators could never again enslave the people of Europe. And over the next four years, many of the foremost writers and filmmakers of their generation were dispatched by Britain and America to help rebuild the country their governments had spent years bombing. Among them, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell, Lee Miller, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Billy Wilder and Humphrey Jennings.
The Bitter Taste of Victory traces the experiences of these figures and through their individual stories offers an entirely fresh view of post-war Europe. Never before told, this is a brilliant, important and utterly mesmerising history of cultural transformation.
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- Cover
- A Note on the Author
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART I: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45
- 1 'Setting out for a country that didn't really exist'
- 2 'Nazi Germany is doomed'
- 3 'We were blind and unbelieving and slow'
- PART II: Ruin and Reconstruction, May-December 1945
- 4 'Complete Chaos Guaranteed'
- 5 'Berlin is boiling in sweltering summer heat'
- 6 'A pain that hurts too much'
- PART III: Judgement and Hunger, 1945-46
- 7 'You'll hang them anyhow'
- 8 'Let Germany Live!'
- 9 'Let this trial never finish'
- 10 'The law tries to keep up with life'
- PART IV: Tension and Revival, 1946-48
- 11 'Their suffering, and often their bravery, make one love them'
- 12 'I've been the Devil's General on earth too long'
- 13 'In Hell too there are these luxuriant gardens'
- PART V: Divided Germany, 1948-49
- 14 'If this is a war who is our enemy?'
- 15 'Perhaps our deaths will shock you into attention'
- Coda: 'Closing time in the gardens of the West'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- By The Same Author
- Plate Section
- Also Available by Lara Feigel
- Copyright
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