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Cultural Aspects in the development of the new "German Mentality" after the year of 1945
VYBÍRALOVÁ, Tereza
Germany was, after 1945, a defeated, blitzed country occupied by four world powers. Fifty years later, we now know Germany as one of the most economically powerful countries in Europe. Economic and political development is a part of many other theses written on this similar topic. The main concept of my work is the influence of culture and the cultural life of ordinary people in post-war Germany. I was focusing on the arts which citizens encountered daily; for example advertisement, billboards or political campaigns and their influence on the people living in Germany. I also included, which media was used in certain situations and what information was dispersed. A large share of the overall image of Germany certainly has the architecture of individual cities. Many buildings were destroyed and had to be reconstructed or even rebuilt. In the following part, I worked with memoires of witnesses. This included narratives of ordinary men, their feelings, everyday problems, and various ways of solving them - all of these credibly show situations and the state of mind in post-war Germany. In another section, I focused on the tales of people, who lived through their childhood in post-war Germany. In a later segment I dealt mainly with soldiers, who were imprisoned during war in prison camps and their circumstances and lives?
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