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Politics of Security - British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970 (Hardcover)
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Politics of Security - British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. How did European societies
experience the Cold War? Politics of Security focuses on a number
of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of
Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to answer this
question. Britons and West Germans had been fierce enemies in the
Second World War. After 1945, however, many activists in both
countries imagined themselves to be part of a common movement
against nuclear armaments. Combining comparative and transnational
histories, Politics of Security stresses how these movements were
deeply embedded in their own societies, but also transcended them.
In particular, it highlights the centrality of the memories of the
Second World War as a prism through which people made sense of the
threat of nuclear war. By placing British and West German
experiences side by side, Holger Nehring illuminates the general
patterns and specific features of these debates, arguing that the
key characteristic of these discussions was the countries' concerns
with different notions of security. The volume highlights how these
ideas changed over time, how they reflected more general political,
social, and cultural trends, and how they challenged mainstream
assumptions of politics and government. This volume is the first to
capture in a transnational fashion what activists did on marches
against nuclear warfare, and what it meant to them and to others.
It highlights the ways in which people became activists, and how
they were transformed by these experiences. Nehring examines how
these two societies with very different experiences and memories of
the cruelties and atrocities of the Second World War drew on very
similar arguments when they came to understand the Cold War through
the prism of the previous world war.
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