France and the German Question, 1945–1990

Frédéric Bozo, Christian Wenkel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-918-5 (ISBN)

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In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany’s fate, and the separation of the country—the result of the nascent Cold War—emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement. Yet East and West Germany would exist apart for half a century, making the "German question" a central foreign policy issue—and given the war-torn history between the two countries, this was felt no more keenly than in France. Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France’s approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged.

Frédéric Bozo is Professor of Contemporary History at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris III, Institute of European Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification (2009) and French Foreign Policy since 1945 (2016), and the editor of such collections as Europe and the End of the Cold War: A Reappraisal (2008).

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Introduction

Frédéric Bozo and Christian Wenkel

PART I: FROM CAPITULATION TO COOPERATION

Chapter 1. France and the German Question, 1945–1949: On the interdependence of Historiography, Methodology, and Interpretations

Rainer Hudemann

Chapter 2. Economic and Industrial Issues in France’s Approach to the German Question in the Postwar Period

Françoise Berger

PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF THE BLOC SYSTEM

Chapter 3. France, German Rearmament, and the German Question, 1945–1955

Michael H. Creswell

Chapter 4. Impossible Allies? Soviet Views of France and the German Question in the 1950s

Geoffrey Roberts

PART III: THE DE GAULLE FACTOR

Chapter 5. An Arbiter between the Superpowers: De Gaulle and the German Question, 1958–1969

Garret J. Martin

Chapter 6. The German Question in the Eastern Policies of France and Germany in the 1960s

Benedikt Schoenborn

PART IV: THE ERA OF OSTPOLITIK

Chapter 7. Perceptions of Ostpolitik: French-West German Relations and the Evolving German Question under Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou

Gottfried Niedhart

Chapter 8. France, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the German Question

Nicolas Badalassi

Chapter 9. The Economic and Monetary Dimensions of the German Question: A French Perspective, 1969–1979

Guido Thiemeyer

PART V: THE END GAME

Chapter 10. The French ‘Obsession’ with the German Question: Willy Brandt, François Mitterrand, the German Question and German Unification, 1981–1990

Bernd Rother

Chapter 11. All about Europe? France, Great Britain and the Question of German Unification, 1989–90

Ilaria Poggiolini

Chapter 12. Franco-Soviet Relations, German Unification, and the End of the Cold War

Frédéric Bozo

PART VI: ENDURING CONCERNS: ANSCHLUSS, BORDERS, AND THE TWO GERMANYS

Chapter 13. Towards a New Anschluss? France and the German and the Austrian Questions, 1945–55

Thomas Angerer

Chapter 14. France, Poland, and Germany's Eastern Border, 1945–1990. The Recurrent Issue of the German Question in French-Polish Relations

Pierre-Frédéric Weber

Chapter 15. A Surprising Continuity: The French Attitude and Policy Towards the German Democratic Republic, 1949–1990

Christian Wenkel

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.06.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80073-918-4 / 1800739184
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-918-5 / 9781800739185
Zustand	Neuware