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Author : John Gimbel
Publisher : Stanford, Calif., U. P
ISBN 13 : 9780804700610
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A German Community Under American Occupation written by John Gimbel and published by Stanford, Calif., U. P. This book was released on 1961 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Höhn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860328
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book GIs and Fräuleins written by Maria Höhn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in morality that accompanied the troops to the provinces. Conservatives condemned the jazz clubs and striptease parlors that Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe opened to cater to the troops, and they expressed scorn toward the German women who eagerly pursued white and black American GIs. While most Germans rejected the conservative effort to punish as prostitutes all women who associated with American GIs, they vilified the sexual relationships between African American men and German women. Hohn demonstrates that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were always debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, it also brought Jim Crow.
Author : Lee Kruger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319388363
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Logistics Matters and the U.S. Army in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 written by Lee Kruger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and sector of Berlin. Both missions required logistics support, a critical aspect often understated in existing scholarship. The security mission, covered by the combat troops, declined between 1945 and 1948, but grew again with the Berlin Blockade/Airlift in 1948, and then again with the Korean crisis in 1950. The logistics mission grew exponentially to support this security mission, as the U.S. Army was the only U.S. Government agency possessing the ability and resources to initially support the occupation mission in Germany. The build-up of ‘Little Americas’ during the occupation years stood forward-deployed U.S. military forces in Europe in good stead over the ensuing decades.
Author : John W. Lemza
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476664161
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book American Military Communities in West Germany written by John W. Lemza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 28, 1946, a small group of American wives and children arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, West Germany, the first of thousands of military family members to make the trans-Atlantic journey. They were the basis of a network of military communities--"Little Americas"--that would spread across the postwar German landscape. During a 45-year period which included some of the Cold War's tensest moments, their presence confirmed America's resolve to maintain Western democracy in the face of the Soviet threat. Drawing on archival sources and personal narratives, this book explores these enclaves of Americanism, from the U.S. government's perspective to the grassroots view of those who made their homes in Cold War Europe. These families faced many challenges in balancing their military missions with their daily lives during a period of dynamic global change. The author describes interaction in American communities that were sometimes separated, sometimes connected with their German neighbors.
Author : Adam R. Seipp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253006775
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Strangers in the Wild Place written by Adam R. Seipp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the experiences of ethnic Germans fleeing the Russian advance into Eastern Europe, German civilians seeking refuge from bombed-out urban areas, non-Germans liberated from concentration camps or compulsory labor facilities, refugee bureaucrats from both Germany and the United Nations, American soldiers and erstwhile occupiers, and the community of Wildflecken itself"--Jacket.
Author : Andrew H. Beattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487637
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany written by Andrew H. Beattie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how all four Allied powers interned alleged Nazis without trial in camps only recently liberated from Nazi control.
Author : Daniel J. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429721870
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book A History Of U.s. Military Forces In Germany written by Daniel J. Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing why the U.S. will remain in the FRG for the foreseeable future, this book examines the U.S. military presence in Germany. It shows how that presence has affected the development of the political and diplomatic relationship between the two countries.
Author : Thomas J. Kehoe
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446819
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Art of Occupation written by Thomas J. Kehoe and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature describing social conditions during the post–World War II Allied occupation of Germany has been divided between seemingly irreconcilable assertions of prolonged criminal chaos and narratives of strict martial rule that precluded crime. In The Art of Occupation, Thomas J. Kehoe takes a different view on this history, addressing this divergence through an extensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between military government and social order. Focusing on the American Zone and using previously unexamined American and German military reports, court records, and case files, Kehoe assesses crime rates and the psychology surrounding criminality. He thereby offers the first comprehensive exploration of criminality, policing, and both German and American fears around the realities of conquest and potential resistance, social and societal integrity, national futures, and a looming threat from communism in an emergent Cold War. The Art of Occupation is the fullest study of crime and governance during the five years from the first Allied incursions into Germany from the West in September 1944 through the end of the military occupation in 1949. It is an important contribution to American and German social, military, and police histories, as well as historical criminology.
Author : Camilo Erlichman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350049239
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany written by Camilo Erlichman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War. Combining a history from below with a top-down perspective, the volume explores the origins, impacts, and legacies of the occupations of the western zones of Germany by the United States, Britain and France, examining complex yet topical issues that often arise as a consequence of war including regime change, transitional justice, everyday life under occupation, the role of intermediaries, and the multifaceted relationship between occupiers and occupied. Adopting a novel set of approaches that puts questions of power, social relations, gender, race, and the environment centre stage, it moves beyond existing narratives to place the occupation within a broader framework of continuity and change in post-war western Europe. Incorporating essays from 16 international scholars, this volume provides a substantial contribution to the emerging fields of occupation studies and the comparative history of post-war Europe.
Author : James Enns
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773549145
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Saving Germany written by James Enns and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have mainly concentrated on the significance of the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and exports of pop culture to describe the role of North Americans in the development of West Germany after the devastation of the Second World War. In Saving Germany, James Enns brings an entirely new focus to West Germany’s recovery by demonstrating how North American missionaries played a formative role in cultivating the humanitarian and spiritual conscience of postwar Germany. Enns begins by categorizing the kinds of Protestant missionary agencies active in West Germany, which ranged from mainline churches overseeing ecumenical humanitarian and church reconstruction projects to independent evangelical mission agencies working alongside local church groups. He then identifies notable themes that contextualize the spectrum of missionary responses, including the degree to which missionaries intentionally functioned as agents of Western democracy. In addition to discussions of well-known figures such as US evangelist Billy Graham, Enns highlights the important contributions of the Janz Quartet from the Canadian prairies and Robert Kreider of the Mennonite Central Committee. Tracking thirty years of transnational Christian missionary work, Saving Germany demonstrates the significant role of North American missionary agencies in the reconstruction of Germany.
Author : Daniel E. Rogers
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081477461X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Politics After Hitler written by Daniel E. Rogers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of the Americans, British, and French in constructing a system of political parties in defeated Germany after 1945. Drawing on extensive research, documents how the allies arrived without a plan, but hastily established licensing for parties, by which they disempowered any views they considered destabilizing, such as reactionary, hypernationalist, and communist. Concludes that the effort was totally successful. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jason B. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351811045
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands written by Jason B. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north." The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Mödlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Mödlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Mödlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division.
Author : Frederick L. McKitrick
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178533249X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book From Craftsmen to Capitalists written by Frederick L. McKitrick and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politically adrift, alienated from Weimar society, and fearful of competition from industrial elites and the working class alike, the independent artisans of interwar Germany were a particularly receptive audience for National Socialist ideology. As Hitler consolidated power, they emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, in the years after 1945, the artisan class became one of the pillars of postwar stability, thoroughly integrated into German society. From Craftsmen to Capitalists gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how skilled tradesmen recast their historical traditions and forged alliances with former antagonists to help realize German democratization and recovery.
Author : Peter M. R Stirk
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748676023
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book History of Military Occupation from 1792 to 1914 written by Peter M. R Stirk and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered.
Author : Richard Bessel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849832013
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Germany 1945 written by Richard Bessel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence from the most terrible catastrophe in modern history. When the Second World War ended, millions had been murdered; survivors had lost their families; cities and towns had been reduced to rubble and were littered with corpses. Yet people lived on, and began rebuilding their lives in the most inauspicious of circumstances. Bombing, military casualties, territorial loss, economic collapse and the processes of denazification gave Germans a deep sense of their own victimhood, which would become central to how they emerged from the trauma of total defeat, turned their backs on the Third Reich and its crimes, and focused on a transition to relative peace. Germany's return to humanity and prosperity is the hinge on which Europe's twentieth century turned. For years we have concentrated on how Europe slid into tyranny, violence, war and genocide; this book describes how humanity began to get back out.
Author : Petra Goedde
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300090222
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book GIs and Germans written by Petra Goedde and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Goedde finds that as American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly as they formed sexual relationships with women, they developed a feminized image of Germany that contrasted sharply with their wartime image of the aggressive Nazi storm trooper. A perception of German "victimhood" emerged that was fostered by the German population and adopted by Americans.
Author : Andrew Szanajda
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739118702
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Restoration of Justice in Postwar Hesse, 1945-1949 written by Andrew Szanajda and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restoration of Justice in Postwar Hesse deals with the reconstruction of the administration of justice in postwar Hesse, a newly established state in the American occupation zone, during the Allied military occupation of Germany from 1945 to 1949.
