Enemies to Allies (eBook)

Cold War Germany and American Memory

Brian C. Etheridge (Autor)

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2016
382 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6642-1 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Addresses a compelling and fascinating feature of the Cold War Era, namely the rapid reversal of America's alliance relationships after World War II."e; -Thomas A. Schwartz, coeditor of The Strained AllianceAt the close of World War II, the United States went from being allied with the Soviet Union against Germany to alignment with the Germans against the Soviet Union-almost overnight. While many Americans came to perceive the German people as democrats standing firm with their Western allies on the front lines of the Cold War, others were wary of a renewed Third Reich and viewed all Germans as nascent Nazis bent on world domination. These adversarial perspectives added measurably to the atmosphere of fear and distrust that defined the Cold War.In Enemies to Allies, Brian C. Etheridge examines more than one hundred years of American interpretations and representations of Germany. With a particular focus on the postwar period, he demonstrates how a wide array of actors-including special interest groups and US and West German policymakers-employed powerful narratives to influence public opinion and achieve their foreign policy objectives. Etheridge also analyses bestselling books, popular television shows such as Hogan's Heroes, and award-winning movies such as Schindler's List to reveal how narratives about the Third Reich and Cold War Germany were manufactured, contested, and co-opted as rival viewpoints competed for legitimacy.This groundbreaking study draws from theories of public memory and public diplomacy to demonstrate how conflicting US accounts of German history serve as a window for understanding not only American identity, but international relations and state power."e;A masterful combination of diplomatic and cultural history."e; -Stewart Anderson, Brigham Young University

Autor

lt;P>Brian C. Etheridge is professor of history and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Georgia Gwinnett College. A past recipient of the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is a coeditor of The United States and Public Diplomacy: The New International History Meets the New Cultural History.

Inhalt

Introduction: Answering the German QuestionTomorrow the World: Images of Germany before the Cold WarGermany Belongs in the Western World: Germany and Consensus Politics in American, 1945-1959Your Post on the Frontier: Germany in an Age of Consensus, 1945-1959The Anti-German Wave: Maintaining and Challenging Consensus in the Age of Chaos, 1959-1969We Refuse to be "Good Germans": Germany in a Divided Decade, 1959-1969The Hero Is Us: Representations of Germans since the 1960sConclusion: The Significance of the German Question in the Twenty-First Century

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Zusatzinfo: 11 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: american jews • Berlin • Collective memory • Cultural Memory • Culture • Foreign Relations • German Americans • Germany • Global politics • Global Studies • Historical Memory • International Studies • Memory • Peace and Conflict Studies • Public Diplomacy • public image • Third Reich • United States • US-German Relations
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-6642-X / 081316642X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6642-1 / 9780813166421