id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4j03cz32k79 Steven Mark Schroeder Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954 2010 .txt text/plain 351 14 36 During the decade between the collapse of the Nazi Empire and the end of Allied occupation of West Germany, a wide variety of individuals and groups in all four occupation zones began processes of reconciliation between Germans and their wartime enemies and victims. Rather than addressing exclusively the statist concerns that drove Allied policies, NGOs prioritized attempts at reconciliation between individuals and communities, provided a crucial link between Germans and the outside world, and fostered dialogue in ways that governments and military personnel did not. cache/4j03cz32k79.txt txt/4j03cz32k79.txt