GIs and Frï¿½uleins The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

Name: GIs and Frï¿½uleins The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
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ISBN: 9780807853757

ISBN-10: 0807853755

ISBN-13: 9780807853757

Edition: 2002

Authors: Maria Hï¿½hn, Maria Hï¿½hn

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With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. InGIs and Fruleins, Maria Hhn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hhn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 7/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Maria H ohn is associate professor of history at Vassar College.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



". . . and Then the Americans Came Again"



Living with the New Neighbors



When Jim Crow Came to the German Heimat



Heimat in Turmoil



Controlling the "Veronikas" and "Soldiers' Brides"



Keeping America at Bay



Punishing the "Veronikas"



The Kaiserslautern Steinstrasse Affair


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index