Verfasst von:	Krause, Scott H. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Bringing Cold War democracy to West Berlin
Titelzusatz:	a shared German-American project, 1940-1972
Institutionen:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [Grad-verleihende Institution]
Werktitel:	Outpost of freedom
Verf.angabe:	Scott H. Krause
Ausgabe:	First edition
Verlagsort:	London ; New York, NY
Verlag:	Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Jahr:	2019
Umfang:	xiv, 284 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Format:	25 cm
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Routledge studies in modern European history ; 61
Fussnoten:	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 ; Literaturangaben und Index
Hochschulschrift:	Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
ISBN:	978-1-138-29985-6
Abstract:	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.
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Schlagwörter:	(g)Berlin <West>    / (k)Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands    / (s)Demokratisierung    / (s)Ost-West-Konflikt    / (z)Geschichte 1945-1972
	(g)USA    / (g)Deutschland <Bundesrepublik>    / (s)Außenpolitik    / (z)Geschichte 1945-1972
	(g)USA    / (g)Berlin <West>    / (s)Ost-West-Konflikt    / (s)Demokratisierung    / (z)Geschichte 1940-1972
Dokumenttyp:	Hochschulschrift
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Übersetzt als Krause, Scott H.: Vorposten der Freiheit
RVK-Notation:	NQ 6924
	NQ 6060
K10plus-PPN:	1029087571
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