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Bringing Cold War democracy to West Berlin :

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1315097850

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1351578324

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1351578332

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1351578340

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9781315097855

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9781351578325

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9781351578332

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9781351578349

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1138299855

Erroneous ISBN

9781138299856

Title Proper

Bringing Cold War democracy to West Berlin :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a shared German-American project, 1940-1972 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Scott H. Krause.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2019

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Routledge studies in modern European history ;

Volume Designation

61

Text of Note

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 under title: Outpost of freedom : a German-American network's campaign to bring Cold War democracy to West Berlin, 1933-66.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Berlin, capital of ruins, 1945-1948 -- Origins of the outpost network, 1933-1949 -- Rise of the outpost narrative in the wake of the Berlin airlift, 1948-1953 -- Triple Crisis, 1953 -- Ascent to leadership, 1954-1961 -- Public acceptance and reinterpretation, 1961-1972 -- Conclusion: Excavating the outpost of freedom on the spree.

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"Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany's former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transformation derived from a network of liberal American occupation officials, and returned émigrés, or remigrés, of the Marxist Social Democratic Party (SPD). This network derived from lengthy physical and political journeys. After fleeing Hitler, German-speaking self-professed 'revolutionary socialists' emphasized 'anti-totalitarianism' in New Deal America and contributed to its intelligence apparatus. These experiences made these remigrés especially adept at cultural translation in postwar Berlin against Stalinism. This book provides a new explanation for the alignment of Germany's principal left-wing party with the Western camp. While the Cold War has traditionally been analyzed from the perspective of decision makers in Moscow or Washington, this study demonstrates the agency of hitherto marginalized on the conflict's first battlefield. Examining local political culture and social networks underscores how both Berliners and émigrés understood the East-West competition over the rubble that the Nazis left behind as a chance to reinvent themselves as democrats and cultural mediators, respectively. As this network popularized an anti-Communist, pro-Western Left, this book identifies how often ostracized émigrés made a crucial contribution to the Federal Republic of Germany's democratization"--

Title

Bringing Cold War democracy to West Berlin.

International Standard Book Number

9781138299856

Reconstruction (1939-1951)-- Germany (West)

Diplomatic relations.

HISTORY / Europe / Germany.

HISTORY / United States / 20th Century

Politics and government.

Reconstruction (1939-1951)

Berlin (Germany), Politics and government, 1945-1990.

Germany (West), Foreign relations, United States.

United States, Foreign relations, Germany (West)

Germany (West)

Germany, Berlin.

United States.

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HIS-- 014000

HIS-- 036060

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Edition

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Krause, Scott H.

Date of Transaction

20200822161822.0

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[Book]

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