The Pledge Betrayed: America and Britain and the Denazification of Postwar Germany
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Book Overview
This text provides an account of the allied treatment of Nazi war criminals and the failure to denazify Germany. Despite the growing avalanche of evidence after 1939 about Nazi Germany's deliberate... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0385177003
ISBN13:9780385177009
Release Date:January 1984
Publisher:Doubleday Books
Length:462 Pages
Weight:1.72 lbs.
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Reality in a nutshell
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I first discovered this book at the Shakespeare bookshop across the street from Notre Dame in 1986. The book is a very tough but fulfilling read ostensibly about the prices paid and not paid for war crimes after world war II. My interpretation is this book is an insight into how governments are run in the face of reality. Indeed the opening chapters convey that reality in horrific details of governments avoiding lines in the sand and avoiding confronting the truth so as to ultimately avoid having to take any more responsibility than absolutely necessary. This book is a descroption and condemnation of the failures of governing then but also the same failures built into the very fabric of the governments we currently live under. It's interesting but not for the faint of heart or those who only want to hear that the problem with our govenments are the idiots the other half of the electorate elected rather than the foundation of the government and the reality of human beings simply being human beings.
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