The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955 / Deborah Kisatsky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2005Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:
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Introduction : the United States, the German right, and American hegemony in Europe -- Cooperation : Adenauer, the CDU, and the United States -- Co-optation : the BDJ affair, 1951-1952 -- Containment : the allies and Otto Strasser, 1945-1955 -- Conclusion : the United States and the European right, 1945-1955.
Summary: These strategies extended techniques of social control perfected within the United States and synthesized domestic and international systems of power in the twentieth century."--JacketSummary: "In this groundbreaking study, Deborah Kisatsky shows that opportunity, not order, galvanized U.S. foreign policy, and that American dealings with the European Right were more complex than has been presumed. U.S. leaders cooperated with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to achieve shared Atlanticist goals. And the United States co-opted nationalistic fighters into a secret stay-behind net of the Bund Deutscher Jugend-Technischer Dienst. But allied leaders jointly worked to contain such vocal neutralist-nationalists as the ex-Nazi Otto Strasser. Cooperation, co-optation, and containment of French and Italian, as of German, rightists advanced American hegemony in EuropeReview: "Nazi Germany's defeat in May 1945 commenced a decade-long allied effort to democratize the former Reich. The United States simultaneously began sheltering scientists, industrialists, and military officers complicit in Nazi crimes. What explained this conflict between the spirit and practice of denazification? Did U.S. Cold War anticommunism simply replace antifascism in the postwar period? Did Americans favor rightists over leftists in a quest to restore "order" in Europe?"
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Introduction : the United States, the German right, and American hegemony in Europe -- Cooperation : Adenauer, the CDU, and the United States -- Co-optation : the BDJ affair, 1951-1952 -- Containment : the allies and Otto Strasser, 1945-1955 -- Conclusion : the United States and the European right, 1945-1955.

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These strategies extended techniques of social control perfected within the United States and synthesized domestic and international systems of power in the twentieth century."--Jacket

"In this groundbreaking study, Deborah Kisatsky shows that opportunity, not order, galvanized U.S. foreign policy, and that American dealings with the European Right were more complex than has been presumed. U.S. leaders cooperated with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to achieve shared Atlanticist goals. And the United States co-opted nationalistic fighters into a secret stay-behind net of the Bund Deutscher Jugend-Technischer Dienst. But allied leaders jointly worked to contain such vocal neutralist-nationalists as the ex-Nazi Otto Strasser. Cooperation, co-optation, and containment of French and Italian, as of German, rightists advanced American hegemony in Europe

"Nazi Germany's defeat in May 1945 commenced a decade-long allied effort to democratize the former Reich. The United States simultaneously began sheltering scientists, industrialists, and military officers complicit in Nazi crimes. What explained this conflict between the spirit and practice of denazification? Did U.S. Cold War anticommunism simply replace antifascism in the postwar period? Did Americans favor rightists over leftists in a quest to restore "order" in Europe?"

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