West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past

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West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past is written by S. Jonathan Wiesen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080785543X (ISBN 10) and 9780807855430 (ISBN 13).

In this groundbreaking study, S. Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German business leaders remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. He challenges assumptions that West Germans - and industrialists in particular - were silent about the recent past during the years of denazification and reconstruction, revealing how German business leaders attempted to absolve themselves of responsibility for Nazi crimes while recasting themselves as socially and culturally engaged public figures. Through case studies of individual firms such as Siemens and Krupp, Wiesen depicts corporate publicity as a telling example of postwar selective memory.