Disciplining Germany analyzes a variety of media, including literature, news media, intellectual history, and films, in order to argue that youth and education played a central role in Germany s coming to terms with the Nazi past. Although there has been a recently renewed interest in Germany s coming to terms with the past, this attention has largely ignored the role of youth and reeducation. This lacuna is particularly perplexing given that the Allies reeducation project became, in many ways, a cipher for the occupational project as a whole. Disciplining Germany opens up the discussion and points toward more general conclusions not only about youth and education as sites for wider socio-political and cultural debates but also about the complexities of occupation and the intertwining of different national cultures. In this investigation, the study attends to both high and low cultural text to specialized versus popular texts to examine how youth was mobilized across the generic spectrum.
Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction After the Second World War
