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Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin - A Shared German-American Project, 1940-1972 (Hardcover)
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Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin - A Shared German-American Project, 1940-1972 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany's former capital,
Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient
democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable
transformation resulted from a network of liberal American
occupation officials, and returned emigres, or remigres, of the
Marxist Social Democratic Party (SPD). This network derived from
lengthy physical and political journeys. After fleeing Hitler,
German-speaking self-professed "revolutionary socialists"
emphasized "anti-totalitarianism" in New Deal America and
contributed to its intelligence apparatus. These experiences made
these remigres especially adept at cultural translation in postwar
Berlin against Stalinism. This book provides a new explanation for
the alignment of Germany's principal left-wing party with the
Western camp. While the Cold War has traditionally been analyzed
from the perspective of decision makers in Moscow or Washington,
this study demonstrates the agency of hitherto marginalized on the
conflict's first battlefield. Examining local political culture and
social networks underscores how both Berliners and emigres
understood the East-West competition over the rubble that the Nazis
left behind as a chance to reinvent themselves as democrats and
cultural mediators, respectively. As this network popularized an
anti-Communist, pro-Western Left, this book identifies how often
ostracized emigres made a crucial contribution to the Federal
Republic of Germany's democratization.
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