In this groundbreaking study, S. Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German business leaders remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. He challenges assumptions that West Germans - and industrialists in particular - were silent about the recent past during the years of denazification and reconstruction, revealing how German business leaders attempted to absolve themselves of responsibility for Nazi crimes while recasting themselves as socially and culturally engaged public figures. Through case studies of individual firms such as Siemens and Krupp, Wiesen depicts corporate publicity as a telling example of postwar selective memory.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13
9780807855430
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95169551
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
S. Jonathan Wiesen
Publication Name
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Economics, Business
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
S. Jonathan Wiesen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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