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Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands - The Cold War in the German Borderlands (Paperback)
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Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands - The Cold War in the German Borderlands (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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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 Moedlareuth. For nearly half
the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Moedlareuth in two.
In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the
villagers of Moedlareuth 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.
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