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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"postwar germany"”.
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The Courtroom Drama in Postwar Germany and America
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Front Line Weimar: Paramilitary Mobilization and Masculine Representation in Postwar Germany
"This study examines political mobilization in Germany after World War I in terms of new visions of a national collective based on gender roles realized and accentuated by the war, in particular service to the nation as a ""new man"" and civic soldier. War offered new opportunities to construct the …
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'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955
Studies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a military occupier, the development of German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to …
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Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Germany, 1919-1925
… more than any other European nation, postwar Germany. Although much less encumbered with physical ravages of the appallingly destructive war than those sustained by her triumphant mortal enemy—France—it was the inexorable fate of Germany to witness the collapse of' her government, to …
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Opening German Minds: Drug Users, Social Tolerance, and the Making of West Germany, 1967--1983
… appeared as profound threats to social order in postwar Germany. Less than two decades later, however, West Germans had come to terms with all three groups. In the process, West Germany transitioned into a far more open society, one that created space for alternative lifestyles rather than …
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“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961
… that brought millions of dollars of goods to Germany. Their aid campaigns continuously emphasized horrific material conditions in postwar Germany, with the necessity of humanitarian aid to stave off both a return of nihilism and an aggressive Soviet-communist advance. By reinforcing the need …
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From the Battlefield to the Archive: Tracing Testimony in Holocaust Memory
… explores how Holocaust memory developed in postwar Germany. Initially marked by silence, German memory culture evolved into a complex narrative of accountability and education. The essay traces this transformation through historical shifts, scholarly debates, and a case study of the …
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Wounds of the past: Trauma and German historical thought after 1945
… history of trauma and historical thinking in postwar Germany. I argue that the traumas of the Second World War generated a paradigm shift in German historical thought, as experiences of dehumanization, exile, imprisonment, destruction, and genocide destabilized narratives of progress and …
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The state of belonging: Gay and lesbian activism in the German Democratic Republic and beyond, 1949-1989
… the ways in which modern states—of which East Germany was one—undertook social engineering programs in an attempt to ‘make citizens straight’ whilst simultaneously deploying homophobia as a political tool to mark insiders and outsiders in postwar communities of national belonging. I also …
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
This dissertation investigates how a constellation of German Jewish post-Holocaust novels confronts the paradox of recovering and recuperating lost stories of Holocaust victims. I analyze how works by Edgar Hilsenrath, Jurek Becker, and Fred Wander reveal a preoccupation with the innumerable …
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Britain and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-49
The Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-49, was intended to transform the war-torn Third Reich into a peaceable nation through a series of far-reaching political, economic, and social reforms. But amid the growing tensions between East and West these radical plans would be significantly altered, …