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Wirtschaftswunder : Deutschland nach dem Krieg 1952-1967 = Germany after the war = l'Allemagne apres la guerre / Josef Heinrich Darchinger ; Klaus Honnef (texts) ; Frank Darchinger (editor) ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen ; [English translation, Hilary Heltay ; French translatio, Wolf Fruhtrunk].

Title
  1. Wirtschaftswunder : Deutschland nach dem Krieg 1952-1967 = Germany after the war = l'Allemagne apres la guerre / Josef Heinrich Darchinger ; Klaus Honnef (texts) ; Frank Darchinger (editor) ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen ; [English translation, Hilary Heltay ; French translatio, Wolf Fruhtrunk].
Published by
  1. Hong Kong ; Los Angeles : Taschen, c2008.
Author
  1. Darchinger, J. H. (Jupp H.), 1925-

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Additional authors
  1. Honnef, Klaus.
  2. Darchinger, Frank.
  3. Taschen, Benedikt
Description
  1. 285 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.); 27 x 32 cm.
Summary
  1. This is a photographic exploration of West Germany eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government. While the bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble, these pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a civilization. The photographer was not manipulating the evidence--he simply recorded what he saw. At the time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity to go and visit the remaining bomb sites. These pictures show a country in a fever of reconstruction and an economic boom so incredible that the world spoke of an "economic miracle." The people who achieved it, in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and diligent
Alternative title
  1. L'Allemagne apres la guerre
  2. Deutschland nach dem Krieg 1952-1967
  3. Germany after the war
  4. Allemagne après la guerre
Subject
  1. Darchinger, Jupp
  2. 1900-1999
  3. Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Germany (West)
  4. Germany (West) > Pictorial works
  5. Germany (West) > Economic conditions
  6. Germany (West) > Social conditions
  7. Germany (West) > Description and travel
Genre/Form
  1. Pictorial works
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  1. Text in German, English and French.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain