Shedding new light on the American campaign to democratize
Western Germany after World War II, "Capturing the German Eye"
uncovers the importance of cultural policy and visual propaganda to
the U.S. occupation.
Cora Sol Goldstein skillfully evokes Germany's political climate
between 1945 and 1949, adding an unexpected dimension to the
confrontation between the United States and the USSR. During this
period, the American occupiers actively vied with their Soviet
counterparts for control of Germany's visual culture, deploying
film, photography, and the fine arts while censoring images that
contradicted their political messages. Goldstein reveals how this
U.S. cultural policy in Germany was shaped by three major factors:
competition with the USSR, fear of alienating German citizens, and
American domestic politics. Explaining how the Americans used
images to discredit the Nazis and, later, the Communists, she
illuminates the instrumental role of visual culture in the struggle
to capture German hearts and minds at the advent of the cold
war.
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