Lions and lambs : conflict in Weimar and the creation of post-Nazi Germany / Noah Benezra Strote.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part 1. Conflict -- The constitutional crisis -- Sectarian visions of the economy -- The battle over national education -- The problem of culture -- Two competing ideals for a Third Reich -- Part 2. Partnership -- The creation of constitutional consensus -- Christian economics? -- The education of Western Europeans -- The culture of Christian partnership -- Living with liberal democracy -- Conclusion.

A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country as a robust democracy and one of the Western world's leading nations. In his debut work, Noah Strote analyzes this remarkable turnaround and challenges the widely held perception that the Western Allies-particularly the United States-were responsible for Germany's transformation. Instead, Strote draws from never-before-seen material to show how Hitler's rise ultimately united the fractious social groups that had vied for supremacy during the so-called Weimar Republic of 1918 to 1933. Strote's character-driven narrative follows ten Germans of diverse backgrounds who lived through the breakdown of the Weimar Republic and together assumed founding roles in the post-Nazi reconstruction. Accessible, deeply researched, and strikingly original, this book offers a fresh understanding of postwar Germany and, more broadly, the postwar European order.

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