Life After Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950sThis collection of essays does not perceive the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi natural return to previous patterns of societal development. It approaches this stability as an attempt to establish normality upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on an unprecedented scale. While the history of post war Germany looms large in this collection, the essays cover countries across Western and Central