America and the shaping of German society, 1945-1955 / edited with an introduction by Michael Ermarth.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.

Political culture and refounding democracy. Germany in transition from Stalingrad (1943) to currency reform (1948) / Hans Woller -- Reeducation and democracy : the policies of the United States high commission in Germany / Thomas A. Schwartz -- "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" or "Renazification"? The American perspective on Germany's confrontation with the Nazi past in the early years of the Adenauer era / Norbert Frei -- The limits of democracy : U.S. policy and the rights of German labor, 1945-1949 / Carolyn Eisenberg -- Market economy, mass consumption, and daily life. Resisting the Pax Americana? West German industry and the United States, 1945-55 / Volker R. Berghahn -- The German talks back : Heinrich Hauser and German attitudes toward Americanization after World War II / Michael Ermarth -- The Americanization of everyday life? Early trends in consumer and leisure-time behavior / Arnold Sywottek, translated by Michael Ermarth.

(Cont.) "Our job in Germany" : the participant viewpoint in historical retrospect. Denazification revisited / William E. Griffith -- Military government and denazification in Ansbach, 1945-1946 / Frank D. Horvay -- My job in Germany, 1945-1954 / Dewilda N. Harris -- My job in Germany, 1950-1955 / William P. Harris -- Reflections on German reorientation / Henry J. Kellermann -- The reeducation of an American proconsul in Germany / Robert Wolfe -- The founding of the Federal Republic of Germany-- an assessment of the role of the U.S.A., 1945-1949 and beyond / Shepard Stone.