The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt rev…
Provides an historical account exposing the true extent of sexual violence in Germany at the end of the World War Two. Discussion in recent years of the rape of German women committed at the end of the war has focused almost exclusively on the crimes committed by Soviet soldiers…
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt rev…
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt rev…
"Born of the dream of fostering a new caste of writers from working-class ranks, the 'Movement of Writing Workers' (Bewegung schreibender Arbeiter) offers a paradigmatic view of the successes and failures of attempts to implement a socialist cultural revolution in the German Dem…
"Born of the dream of fostering a new caste of writers from working-class ranks, the 'Movement of Writing Workers' (Bewegung schreibender Arbeiter) offers a paradigmatic view of the successes and failures of attempts to implement a socialist cultural revolution in the German Dem…
"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 …
Introduction: Eerie -- Calamity, 1945-52 -- Elimination, 1952 -- Fighting mood, 1952-60 -- Admonition, 1960-61 -- Bleak, 1961-89 -- Ass of the world, 1961-89 -- Epilogue: Dream "In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in W…
"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 …
"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 …
Negli anni Settanta e Ottanta l'intreccio di interessi politico-economici fra le due sponde dell'Europa divenne più fitto. Il dialogo Est-Ovest si consolidò, coinvolgendo la diplomazia, il mondo dell'impresa e della finanza e i partiti, "fratelli" e non. Il volume esplora i rapp…
Negli anni Settanta e Ottanta l'intreccio di interessi politico-economici fra le due sponde dell'Europa divenne più fitto. Il dialogo Est-Ovest si consolidò, coinvolgendo la diplomazia, il mondo dell'impresa e della finanza e i partiti, "fratelli" e non. Il volume esplora i rapp…
Negli anni Settanta e Ottanta l'intreccio di interessi politico-economici fra le due sponde dell'Europa divenne più fitto. Il dialogo Est-Ovest si consolidò, coinvolgendo la diplomazia, il mondo dell'impresa e della finanza e i partiti, "fratelli" e non. Il volume esplora i rapp…
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume …
