Reconstruction in Post War Germany

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Reconstruction in Post-War Germany

British Occupation Policy and the Western Zones

1945-55

Edited by

Ian D. Turner

BERG

Oxford / New York / Munich

Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by

St. Martin s Press, New York


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ontents

Foreword

Volker Berghahn

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Acknowledgements xiii

Abbreviations xv

Part I Setting the Scene

Introduction. The British Occupation and Its Impact on

Germany

Ian Turner

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1. Cold-War Diplomacy: British Policy Towards

Germany s Role in Europe, 19459

nne Deighton . 15

Part II British Policy and the Economy of the Western Zones

2. Economic Reconstruction in Western Germany,

1945-55:

The Displacement of Vegetative Control

Wendy Carlin

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3. British Policy Towards German Industry, 1945-9:

Reconstruction, Restriction or Exploitation?

Ian Turner 67

4. The Uncontrolled Economy: Ruhr Coal Production,

1945-8

Mark Roseman

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5.British Dismantling Politics, 1945-9: A Reassessment

lan Kramer

125

6. Allied-German Negotiations on the Deconcentration

of the West German Steel Industry

Isabel Warner

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Part III Democratic Rebirth Under British Control

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British Democratisation Policy in Germany

Barbara Marshall

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Priming the Pump of German Democracy: British

Re-Education Policy in Germany after the Second

World War

David Welch

9. Denazification in the British Zone

Ian Turner

Part IV Key Groups in Post War German Society

1 DGB Economic Policy with Particular Reference

to the British Zone, 1945-9

Peter Hubsch

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The Refugees and the Currency Reform

Ian Connor

Part V The Occupation as a Field of Research

12 Research on the British Occupation of Germany

Ian Turner

Appendix. The Apparatus of Occupational Rule

Notes on the Contributors

Bibliography

Index

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Documents

Reconstruction in Post War Germany