Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War

Jaimey Fisher

Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Youth, Memory, and Guilt in Early Postwar Germany

1. Hitler’s Youth? The Nazi “Revolution” as Youth Uprising

2. The Jugendproblem (Youth Problem): Youth and Reeducation in the Early Postwar Public Sphere

3. Germany’s Youthful “Catastrophe”: Guilt and Modernity in the Early Postwar Period

4. Modernity’s Better Others: Youth in Jaspers’s Postwar University and Wiechert’s Reconstructive Agenda

5. Children of the Rubble: Youth, Pedagogy, and Politics in Early DEFA Films

6. Reconstructing Film in the Western Zones: Stars of Youthful Sexuality

Conclusion: Mobilizing Youth for the Cold War

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index