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Divided, but not disconnected : German experiences of the Cold War
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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 volume explores how social and cultura...
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 volume explores how social and cultural practices in both German states between 1949 and 1989 were shaped by the existence of this inner border.
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- Creator
- edited by Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht and Andrew Plowman
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2010
- Physical Details
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- x, 266 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 184545751X, 9781782381006, 9781845456467, 9781845457518, 1782381007, 1845456467, 178238099X
- OCLC
- ocn727649478, ocn641527797
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 / Séan 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 Luftbrücke : 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