Sheffer Edith (Assistant Professor Of History Stanford University)
Sheffer Edith (Assistant Professor Of History Stanford University) - Burned Bridge How East And West Germans Made The Iron Curtain - Paperback
Sheffer Edith (Assistant Professor Of History Stanford University) - Burned Bridge How East And West Germans Made The Iron Curtain - Paperback
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Description: The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West imposed by communism has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival oral and private sources Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented in - depth account focuses on Burned Bridge - the intersection between two sister cities Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. The border walled off irreconcilable realities: the differences of freedom and captivity rich and poor peace and bloodshed and past and present. Sheffer describes how smuggling kidnapping rape and killing in the early postwar years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides - - long before East Germany fortified its 1,393 kilometer border with West Germany. It was in fact the American military that built the first barriers at Burned Bridge which preceded East Germany's borderland crackdown by many years. Indeed Sheffer shows that the physical border between East and West was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers but was in some part an improvised outgrowth of an anxious postwar society. Ultimately a wall of the mind shaped the wall on the ground. East and West Germans became part of and helped perpetuate the barriers that divided them. From the end of World War II through two decades of reunification Sheffer traces divisions at Burned Bridge with sharp insight and compassion presenting a stunning portrait of the Cold War on a human scale.
Title: Burned Bridge How East And West Germans Made The Iron Curtain
Author(s): Sheffer Edith (Assistant Professor Of History Stanford University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199314614
Pages: 384 Pages, 34 Halftones
Publication Date: 2/12/2014
Category: The Cold War
Description: The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West imposed by communism has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival oral and private sources Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented in - depth account focuses on Burned Bridge - the intersection between two sister cities Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. The border walled off irreconcilable realities: the differences of freedom and captivity rich and poor peace and bloodshed and past and present. Sheffer describes how smuggling kidnapping rape and killing in the early postwar years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides - - long before East Germany fortified its 1,393 kilometer border with West Germany. It was in fact the American military that built the first barriers at Burned Bridge which preceded East Germany's borderland crackdown by many years. Indeed Sheffer shows that the physical border between East and West was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers but was in some part an improvised outgrowth of an anxious postwar society. Ultimately a wall of the mind shaped the wall on the ground. East and West Germans became part of and helped perpetuate the barriers that divided them. From the end of World War II through two decades of reunification Sheffer traces divisions at Burned Bridge with sharp insight and compassion presenting a stunning portrait of the Cold War on a human scale.
Title: Burned Bridge How East And West Germans Made The Iron Curtain
Author(s): Sheffer Edith (Assistant Professor Of History Stanford University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199314614
Pages: 384 Pages, 34 Halftones
Publication Date: 2/12/2014
Category: The Cold War
