By Paul A. Jackson
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The newly born Federal Republic was a country without an army; indeed, its constitution prohibited it from having one. ’’18 Jarausch argues that the trauma of the war and the magnitude of Germany’s defeat convinced many Germans that demilitarization was necessary. Germany’s turn away from ‘‘blood and iron,’’ thought many, was nonnegotiable and, in the early fifties, just getting started. But it wasn’t long after the republic’s creation that Adenauer began floating the idea of making some kind of military contribution to the western defense effort—in return for greater sovereignty.
Troops had gradually ceased to consider Germans as the defeated enemy. By the mid-fifties, the angst and despair of the immediate postwar years were receding into the past, with life picking up for the West Germans. The Fischers left Langenburg in early 1956, at the peak of the Wirtschaftswunder. Even West Germany’s astonishing economic recovery couldn’t save Jozsef’s flagging butcher shop. Most probably, the double stigma of being refugees and Catholics in an overwhelmingly Protestant region doomed Jozsef’s business from the start.
Elisabeth ran a strict, fastidious household, ‘‘very kleinbu¨rgerlich,’’ as Joschka put it many years later. 17 Her domain may have been the traditional Kinder, Ku¨che, und Kirche (children, kitchen, and church), but it was also much more. She anchored the family after the trauma of expulsion and financial ruin had broken Jozsef. In the face of adversity, the demure bride had developed into a strongwilled woman, sometimes hot-tempered, always vivacious, and unshakably pious. Former friends remember her charisma, light-hearted banter, and easy way with words.