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Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany, Paperback / softback Book

Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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After the Second World War Germany lay in ruins. To Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) belongs much of the credit for raising West Germany to a position of economic prosperity and making it a respected free-world ally.

Adenauer was born in 1876, in Cologne, part of a devout Roman Catholic family.

He was elected mayor of Cologne in 1917, a post he held for 16 years, then a representative in the Prussian State Council of which he became president in 1928.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Adenauer was stripped of all his political positions, imprisoned and then sent to a concentration camp.

But after the war he organised a new party, the Christian Democratic Union and in 1949 he became West Germany's first chancellor, retiring after four consecutive re-elections in 1963.

Charles Williams' magisterial biography of a great twentieth-century statesman - and German - is also a monumental history of modern Germany.

The book's four sections: 'The Kaiser's Germany', 'Weimar Germany', 'Nazi Germany' and 'Adenauer's Germany' - bear eloquent testimony to this most singular of nations.

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