Divided, But Not Disconnected : : German Experiences of the Cold War / / ed. by Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht, Andrew Plowman.

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 inextricabl...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Divided, but Not Disconnected: Germany as a Border Region of the Cold War
  • 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
  • 3 The Sideways Gaze: The Cold War and Memory of the Nazi Past, 1949–1970
  • 4 Recasting Luther’s Image: The 1983 Commemoration of Martin Luther in the GDR
  • 5 West German Labour Internationalism and the Cold War
  • 6 The German Question and Polish–East German Relations, 1945–1962
  • 7 From Bulwark of Freedom to Cosmopolitan Cocktails: The Cold War, Mass Tourism and the Marketing of West Berlin as a Tourist Destination
  • 8 Projections of History: East German Film-Makers and the Berlin Wall
  • 9 Defending the Border? Satirical Treatments of the Bundeswehr after the 1960s
  • 10 East versus West: Olympic Sport as a German Cold War Phenomenon
  • 11 Films from the ‘Other Side’ The Infl uence of the Cold War on the West German Feature Film Import in the GDR
  • 12 The Shadows of the Past in Germany: Visual Representation, the Male Hero and the Cold War
  • 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
  • 14 Unusual Censor Readings: East German Science Fiction and the GDR Ministry of Culture
  • 15 Funerals in Berlin: The Geopolitical and Cultural Spaces of the Cold War
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index