Description
Michael Hughes offers the first comprehensive study of West Germany's efforts to redistribute the costs of war and defeat among its citizenry. The debate over a Lastenausgleich (a balancing out of burdens) generated thousands of documents in which West Germans articulated deeply held beliefs about social justice, economic rationality, and political legitimacy. Hughes uses these sources to trace important changes in German society since 1918, illuminating the process by which West Germans, who had rejected liberal democracy in favor of Nazi dictatorship in the 1930s, came to accept the social-market economy and parliamentary democracy of the 1950s.
About the Author
Michael L. Hughes is professor of history at Wake Forest University and author of Paying for the German Inflation.
Book Information
ISBN 9780807871614
Author Michael L. Hughes
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 418g