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Divided, but not disconnected : German experiences of the Cold War / edited by Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht and Andrew Plowman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Germany--History--20th century.
- Historiography.
- Political culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Cold War--Social aspects--Germany.
- Cold War.
- Germany--History--1945-1990.
- Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.
- Germany--Civilization--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order. This inner border made Germany a unique place to experience the Cold War, and the "German question" in this post-1945 variant remained inextricably entwined with the vicissitudes of the Cold War until its end. This volume explores how social and cultural practices in both German states between 1949 and 1989 were shaped by the existence of this inner border, putting them on opposing sides of the ideological divide between the Western and Ea
- Contents:
- Divided, but not disconnected : Germany as a border region of the Cold War / Thomas Lindenberger
- Fighting the First World War in the Cold War : East and West German historiography on the origins of the First World War, 1949-1959 / Matthew Stibbe
- The sideways gaze : the Cold War and memory of the Nazi past, 1949-1970 / Bill Niven
- Recasting Luther's image : the 1983 commemoration of Martin Luther in the GDR / Jon Berndt Olsen
- West German labour internationalism and the Cold War / Quinn Slobodian
- The German question and Polish/East German relations, 1945-1962 / Sheldon Anderson
- From bulwark of freedom to cosmopolitan cocktails : the Cold War, mass tourism and the marketing West Berlin as a tourist destination / Michelle A. Standley
- Projections of history : East German film-makers and the Berlin Wall / Sean Allan
- Defending the border? : satirical treatments of the Bundeswehr after the 1960s / Andrew Plowman
- East versus West : Olympic sport as a German Cold War phenomenon / Christopher Young
- Films from the other side : the influence of the Cold War on West German feature film import in the GDR / Rosemary Stott
- The shadows of the past in Germany : visual representation, the male hero, and the Cold War / Inge Marszolek
- Reenacting the first battle of the Cold War : post-wall German television confronts the Berlin Airlift in Die Luftbrucke : nur der Himmel war frei / Tobias Hochscherf and Christoph Laucht
- Unusual censor readings : East German science fiction and the GDR ministry of culture / Patrick Major
- Funerals in Berlin : the geopolitical and cultural spaces of the Cold War / James Chapman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782381006
- 1782381007
- 9781845456467
- 1845456467
- OCLC:
- 727649478
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