Divided, But Not Disconnected : German Experiences of the Cold War
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 i...
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New York, NY : Berghahn Books,
2013
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| Schlagworte: | Historiography Political culture Cold War |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (276 p) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- DIVIDED, BUT NOT DISCONNECTED; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. Divided, but Not Disconnected: Germany as a Border Region of the Cold War; Chapter 2. Fighting the First World War in the Cold War: East and West German Historiography on the Origins of the First World War, 1945-1959; Chapter 3. The Sideways Gaze: The Cold War and Memory of the Nazi Past, 1949-1970; Chapter 4. Recasting Luther's Image: The 1983 Commemoration of Martin Luther in the GDR; Chapter 5. West German Labour Internationalism and the Cold War
- Chapter 6. The German Question and Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962Chapter 7. From Bulwark of Freedom to Cosmopolitan Cocktails: The Cold War, Mass Tourism and the Marketing of West Berlin as a Tourist Destination; Chapter 8. Projections of History: East German Film-Makers and the Berlin Wall; Chapter 9. Defending the Border? Satirical Treatments of the Bundeswehr after the 1960s; Chapter 10. East versus West: Olympic Sport as a German Cold War Phenomenon; Chapter 11. Films from the 'Other Side': The Influence of the Cold War on the West German Feature Film Import in the GDR
- Chapter 12. The Shadows of the Past in Germany: Visual Representation, the Male Hero and the Cold WarChapter 13. Reenacting the First Battle of the Cold War: Post-Wall German Television Confronts the Berlin Airlift in Die Luftbrücke - Nur der Himmel war frei; Chapter 14. Unusual Censor Readings: East German Science Fiction and the GDR Ministry of Culture; Chapter 15. Funerals in Berlin: The Geopolitical and Cultural Spaces of the Cold War; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index