Sweden after Nazism

Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-142-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians. Nonetheless, as this definitive study shows, the war—and particularly the specter of Nazism—changed Swedish society profoundly. Prior to 1939, many Swedes shared an unmistakable affinity for German culture, and even after the outbreak of hostilities there remained prominent apologists for the Third Reich. After the Allied victory, however, Swedish intellectuals reframed Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism. Accordingly, Swedes’ self-conception underwent a dramatic reformulation. From this interplay of suppressed traditions and bright dreams for the future, postwar Sweden emerged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Östling, Johan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Prologue: A Sword of Damocles over the Age in Which We Live

Chapter 1. Nazism and the Twentieth Century

Chapter 2. The Experience of Nazism

Chapter 3. Nazism as Stigma

Chapter 4. The Ideas of 1945

Chapter 5. German Autumn

Chapter 6. The Lessons of Nazism

Index of Persons

Über Autor(innen)

Östling, Johan
Johan Östling is Associate Professor of History and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at Lund University, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala. He has received a number of awards, including the Clio Prize and the Nils Klim Prize, and he has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.