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The Ambivalent Alliance - Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (Hardcover)
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The Ambivalent Alliance - Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (Hardcover)
Series: Monographs in German History
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Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West
Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply:
"The alliance with the free West." Scholars have echoed his
assessment, citing the Federal Republic of Germany's successful
integration into the American-led West (Westbindung) as the key to
its postwar economic and political recovery. Behind this simple
success story, however,lies a much more complicated history:
Adenauer and the CDU/CSU remained ambivalent about the ultimate
relationship between Europe, Germany, and the United States within
the West, torn between visions of Continental European integration
based on Franco-German reconciliation and of an Atlantic community
linking Europe and the "Anglo-Saxons." These differences eventually
erupted into a damaging public conflict between "Atlanticists" and
"Gaullists," which colored Adenauer's last years and, after his
retirement in 1963, led directly to the failure of his successor,
Ludwig Erhard. The opening of various personal and party archives
over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer Era
accessible for historians. As one of the first efforts to use that
material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the
period, this book traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU in
shaping Westbindung. Adenauer emerges as a skilled and resourceful
(if also mistrustful and devious) politician, and as a distinctly
German statesman, maneuvering between allies and adversaries to
shape both the Western community and the German role in it, leaving
a legacy that still influences contemporary German-American and
European-American relations.
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