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When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated a broad range of government papers and archives. These records were subsequently used in war crimes trials and published under Allied auspices to document the German road to war. In 1949, the West Germans asked for their return, considering the request one of the benchmarks of their new state sovereignty. This book traces the tangled history of the captured German records and the extended negotiations for their return into German custody. Based on meticulous research in British, American and German archives, The Struggle for the Files highlights an overlooked aspect of early West German diplomacy and international relations. All participants were aware that the files constituted historical material essential to write German history and at stake was nothing less than the power to interpret the recent German past.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Struggle for the Files
• Subtitle: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War
• Author: Astrid M Eckert
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 444
• EAN: 9780521880183
• ISBN: 0521880181
• ID: 04449259
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 742 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 161 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. February 2012

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