In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived through postwar reconstruction to trace the conflicting ways Jews and Germans defined their own victimization and survival, comprehended the trauma of war and genocide, and struggled to rebuild their lives. In gripping and unforgettable detail, Atina Grossmann describes Berlin in the days followi
"Poor Germany": Berlin and the Occupation -- Gendered Defeat: Rape, Motherhood, and Fraternization -- "The Survivors were Few and the Dead were Many": Jews in occupied Berlin -- The Saved and Saving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in the American Zone -- Mir zaynen do: Sex, Work and the DP Baby Boom -- Conclusion: The "Interregnum" Ends
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