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Author Sheffer, Edith.

Title Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain / Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  943.087 SH39    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  943.087 SHE    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-342) and index.
Contents Foundations : Burned Bridge -- Insecurity : border mayhem -- Inequality : economic divides -- Kickoff : political skirmishing -- Shock : border closure and deportation -- Shift : everyday boundaries -- Surveillance : individual controls -- Home : life in the prohibited zone -- Fault line : life in the fortifications -- Disconnect : East-West relations -- Epilogue : new divides.
Subject Germany (East) -- Relations -- Germany (West)
Germany (West) -- Relations -- Germany (East)
Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany) -- History -- 20th century.
Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany) -- History -- 20th century.
Boundaries -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- History -- 1945-1990.
ISBN 9780199737048 (hbk. : acid-free paper) : $29.95
0199737045 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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