Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration (Hardcover)

Foreword by Fritz Stern
Introduction
I. A Legislation for the Past: Parliamentary and Administratives Junctures
1. The Amnesty Law of 1949
2. The "Liquidation" of Denazification
3. The Rehabilitation and Pensioning of the "131ers"
4. The Amnesty Law of 1954
II. A Past-Political Obsession: The Problem of the War-Criminals
5. The War-Crimes Issue Preceding the Bonn Republic
6. The Politicization of the War-Criminal Question (1949-50)
7. The Debate Under the Sign of Rearmament (1950-51)
8. A "General Treaty" instead of a "General Amnesty" (1951-52)
9. The Windup of the War-Criminal Problem
III. Fixing Past-Political Limits: Judicial Norms and Allied Intervention
10. The Hedler Affair and the Establishment of Criminal-Legal Norms (1950)
11. The Rise and Banning of the Socialist Reich Party (1951-52)
12. The Naumann Affair and the Role of the Allies (1953)
Conclusion
Postscript to the American Edition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources and Literature
Index