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Death at the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
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Death at the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
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During its 28-year existence, the Berlin Wall was the foremost
symbol of the Cold War division of Germany - and of Europe as a
whole. But it was also a very concrete site of separation and
suffering that claimed the lives of at least 136 people. Taking
these deaths at its point of departure, this book reconstructs
twelve individual tragedies that occurred at the Wall between 1961
and 1989. They include deaths of escapees from the GDR, by far the
largest sub-category of the Wall's victims, as well as those of
West Berliners who made an unauthorized entry into the border zone
and of East German border guards killed in the line of duty. Ahonen
connects these fatalities to larger political processes between the
two Germanys, linking micro- and macro-historical perspectives in
innovative ways. Within a comparative East-West framework, he
examines how the deaths became politicized and instrumentalized in
the two states' Cold War battles over legitimacy and power. At the
same time, he provides a broader narrative history of the Berlin
Wall and of German-German relations during the last three decades
of the Cold War. He also extends the analysis into the post-1989
context, exploring post-unification Germany's efforts to come to
terms with the problematic legacies of the Wall and of national
division more generally, thereby adding new perspectives to the
ongoing analysis of contemporary German memory politics.
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