The Politics of Post-Fascist Aesthetics: West and East German Design in the 1950s

Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann... experience of violence and death during the 1940s were profound and colored all aspects of life during the postwar... the connections were between the violence of the 1940s and the normality of the 1950s, remains extremely speculative. ... the late 1940s and 1950s was concentrated on the reconstruction of political and economic structures, especially in Germany.