Marshall. The Origins of Post-War German Politics

Abstract

In this monograph, Barbara Marshall, a Senior Lecturer in European History at the Polytechnic of North London, examines how the post-World War II political, social, and economic order developed within the Germany occupied by the western Allies. Expectations raised by its title notwithstanding, The Origins of Post-War German Polilics focuses on British occupation policies in Hanover between the city's capture in April 1945 and the economic merger of the British and American zones in January 1947. Divided into two sections, it treats respectively the interregnum between April and August and the post-Potsdam period.