Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders

by Andrew Demshuk

Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as "sacred sites" to redeem the national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946971
• ISBN13: 9780822946977
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 3.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 10.1"