Description:Germany 1945-1949 examines the critical post-war period when, as today, the German people were ready to break with the past and to reassess what it means to be German. Malzahn uses post-war documents to elucidate the political and social currents of the time and to illustrate how the Nazi state was dismantled and refashioned into two separate countries. Comprehensively annotated and illustrated, the volume offers insight into the perspectives of people from all walks of life and levels as it explores the reality of post-war Germany.