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"The United States postwar occupation of Japan likes to boast of having given the Japanese freedom of expression and freedom of the press. True, it freed the Japanese press from many wartime constraints. But at the same time, it imposed a large number of new constraints, replacing wartime censorship by the Japanese government with postwar censorship by the American occupation authority. Even before the war ended, planning for the occupation included a censorship and public relations effort that would work to "re-educate" the Japanese and fold them into the postwar American international order. Similar efforts were made in Germany, but the effort in Japan was far more sweeping and far more sustained. This book documents that history in detail with extensive references to primary resources held in U.S. archives and elsewhere. Was the occupation successful in reshaping the Japanese mindset? Citing not only the postwar Constitution but also, among other things, the widespread belief in the Tokyo Trials' validity, Etō argues doggedly that it was so successful that its pernicious influence persists even today. Yet the heart of this heavily researched book is its meticulous documentation of how this censorship was planned and enforced."--Dust jacket.
J3389 --- J4000.90 --- J4126 --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- occupation period (1945-1952) --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- media and (mass) communications --- Censorship --- Freedom of the press --- Postwar reconstruction. --- Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948. --- History --- Japan --- Politics and government --- Postwar reconstruction --- Censorship. --- Freedom of the press. --- Politics and government. --- Ken'etsu. --- Senryō seisaku-Nihon. --- History. --- 1945-1989 --- United States --- Japan. --- Foreign relations
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Contemporary historians have transformed our understanding of the German military in World War II, debunking the “clean Wehrmacht” myth that held most soldiers innocent of wartime atrocities. Considerably less attention has been paid to those soldiers at the end of hostilities. In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier. As Echternkamp shows, public controversies around these topics helped to drive the social processes that legitimized the democratic postwar order.
Veteran reintegration --- Germany (West) --- History. --- captivity. --- clean wehrmacht myth. --- defectors. --- demilitarization. --- deserters. --- enemy combatants. --- engaging. --- european history. --- fighting. --- german military. --- government and governing. --- historical. --- hostilities. --- men at war. --- military veterans. --- modern german history. --- occupation period. --- political. --- politics. --- postwar germany. --- prisoners of war. --- public rehabilitation. --- remembering the fallen. --- retrospective. --- social science. --- social studies. --- soldiers. --- total war. --- war and battles. --- war criminals. --- warfare. --- wartime atrocities. --- west germany. --- world war 2. --- ww 2.
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