| Description |
ix, 498 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Princeton paperbacks
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| Note |
Based on a conference held at the University of Minnesota in 1996. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction, Writing about 1950s West Germany / Hanna Schissler -- Hour of the woman : memories of Germany's "crisis years" and West German national identity / Elizabeth Heineman -- Survivors of totalitarianism : returning POWs and the reconstruction of masculine citizenship in West Germany, 1945-1955 / Frank Biess -- Remembering the war in a nation of victims : West German pasts in the 1950s / Robert G. Moeller -- Mission to happiness : the cohort of 1949 and the making of East and West Germans / Dorothee Wierling -- Uneasy existence : Jewish survivors in Germany after 1945 / Juliane Wetzel -- Heimat in turmoil : African-American GIs in 1950s West Germany / Maria Höhn -- Of German mothers and "Negermischlingskinder" : race, sex, and the postwar nation / Heide Fehrenbach -- Guest workers and policy on guest workers in the Federal Republic from the beginning of recruitment in 1955 until its halt in 1973 / Ulrich Herbert and Karin Hunn -- Ever-present other : Communism in the making of West Germany / Eric D. Weitz -- "Normalization" in the West : traces of memory leading back into the 1950s / Lutz Niethammer -- Film in the 1950s : passing images of guilt and responsibility / Frank Stern -- Memory and commerce, gender and restoration : Wolfgang Staudt's Roses for the State Prosecutor (1959) and West German film in the 1950s / Richard McCormick. |
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Creating a cocoon of public acquiescence : the author-reader relationship in postwar German literature / Frank Trommler -- Recasting bourgeois Germany / Volker R. Berghahn -- From starvation to excess? : trends in the consumer society from the 1940s to the 1970s / Arnold Sywottek -- "Normalization" as project : some thoughts on gender relations in West Germany during the 1950s / Hanna Schissler -- Cold War angst : the case of West-German opposition to rearmament and nuclear weapons / Michael Geyer -- New, "western" hero? : reconstructing German masculinity in the 1950s / Uta G. Poiger -- Establishing cultural democracy : youth, "Americanization," and the irresistible rise of popular culture / Kaspar Maase -- "Miracle" of the political-cultural shift : democratization between Americanization and conservative reintegration / Diethelm Prowe -- Epilogue, Rebels in search of a cause / Hanna Schissler. |
| Subject |
Germany (West) -- Social life and customs.
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Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations.
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Racism -- Germany (West)
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Germany (West) -- Cultural policy.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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| Chronological Term |
Sozialgeschichte 1949-1968.
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1939 - 1945
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| Added Author |
Schissler, Hanna.
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| ISBN |
0691058199 alkaline paper |
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9780691058191 alkaline paper |
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0691058202 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780691058207 paperback alkaline paper |
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