{"id":19160,"date":"2022-10-24T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=218167"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:55:08","slug":"chaos-ruin-renewal-germany-in-1945","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/chaos-ruin-renewal-germany-in-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos, ruin &amp; renewal: Germany in 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 24 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>At the bitter, drawn-out conclusion of the Second World War in 1945, Germany stood in ruins \u2013 both literally and psychologically. Cities had been reduced to rubble, millions were dead or displaced and there was a governmental power vacuum. Speaking with Ellie Cawthorne, Cundill History Prize-nominated author Harald J\u00e4hner reveals how the country began to rebuild itself following the chaos of war.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-218167-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/GermanyHarald-Jahner-09ec66b.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/GermanyHarald-Jahner-09ec66b.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/GermanyHarald-Jahner-09ec66b.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Harald J\u00e4hner is the author of <em>Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich<\/em> (Ebury, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/aftermath-life-in-the-fallout-of-the-third-reich\/9780753557860?aid=450&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Aftermath-Fallout-Third-Reich-1945-1955\/dp\/075355786X?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Faftermath%2Fharald-jahner%2Fshaun-whiteside%2F9780753557884&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Monday, 24 October 2022 at 12:00 am At the bitter, drawn-out conclusion of the Second World War in 1945, Germany stood in ruins \u2013 both literally and psychologically. 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