Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent,

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel

with us. P and Dau Ferris, there is another way.

Hello everyone, welcome back to the History Hit Warfare

podcast. I'm your host James Rogers. Now it's common to talk about the

impact that the Second World War had on the Allied nations and that monumental task of rebuilding

that got underway as the Cold War began to rage. But it's far less common to hear about the experience

in a divided, fragmented, fractured, you could say

shattered Germany from 1945. How, if at all, did the country begin to deal

with its dark history of fascism and its role in the Holocaust.

What impact did the complete breakdown of civil society have on civilians and their ability to rebuild

their lives? And perhaps most staggering of all, as we look back now, how has it been possible

for Germany to rebuild, recover and grow into the successful functioning democracy that it is today.

Well, to take us through this history and discuss these questions,

we have the award-winning German author and journalist Harold Jana.

Now, Harold is the author of a new book, Aftermath, Life in the

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