To Forget It All and Begin Anew

Steven M. Schroeder is a faculty member in the History Department at the University of the Fraser Valley.

• PrefaceIntroduction1 The German People and Allied Demands: Pressures and Initiatives toward Reconciliation, 1944-19462 German Church and Political Groups3 Steps toward Christian-Jewish Reconciliation4 Broadening of International Contacts and Reconciliation Work5 The Politics of Reconciliation in the Two Germanies, 1949-1954ConclusionBibliography

‘Both researchers and students will find this book useful as a means of looking beyond the Cold War dynamic and state leaders to understand how prominent individuals, not always for the most altruistic reasons, sought to make Germans respectable again on the world stage after the horrors of Nazism.’ - Andrew Demshuk (American Historical Review vol 119:02:2014) ‘Schroeder’s research successfully introduces into the historiography the work of a number of hitherto neglected post-war institutions based on thorough archival digging, which in itself is an important contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the period.’ - Camilo Erlichman (Reviews in History, 19 June 2014)