Divided, But Not Disconnected German Experiences of the Cold War [Paperback]

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 Eastern blocs, as well as stabilizing relations between them. This volumes interdisciplinary approach addresses important intersections between history, politics, and culture, offering an important new appraisal of the German experiences of the Cold War.

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Introduction
Tobias Hochscherf,Christoph LauchtandAndrew Plowman

Chapter 1.Divided, but not Disconnected: Germany as a Border Region of the Cold War
Thomas Lindenberger

Chapter 2.Fighting the First World War in the Cold War: East and West German Historiography on the Origins of the First World War, 1949-61
Matthew Stibbe

Chapter 3.Divided Memory of the Holocaust during the Cold War
Bill Niven

Chapter 4.Commemorating Luther: Contested Memories and the Cold War
Jon Berndt Olsen

Chapter 5.The Third World Origins of the Consensual Turn: West German Labor Internationalism and the Cold War
Quinn Slobodian

Chapter 6.The German Question and Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962
Sheldon Anderson

Chapter 7.From Bulwark of Peace to Cosmopolitan Cocktails: Marketing West Berlin as a Cold War Showcase from the 1960s to the 1970s
Michelle A. Standley

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