''Beyond Eagle and Swastika: German Nationalism Since 1945'' is a book by Kurt P. Tauber. It is a history and analysis of (and a

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on) anti-democratic

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in postwar Germany. It was completed in 1963 after ten years of research.

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, of Middletown, Connecticut, published it in two volumes (spanning 1,598 pages) in 1967.

Reception

''Beyond Eagle and Swastika'' was called "a monumental work" by Louis Leo Snyder in a review for ''

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''. Gordon A. Craig said that it was a "scholarly ''tour de force''" in a review comparing it to Ferenc A. Váli's ''The Quest for a United Germany''.

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