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This book details the Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMLM) in West Germany and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) in East Germany as microcosms of the Cold War strategic intelligence and counterintelligence landscape. Thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet and U.S. Military Liaison Missions are all but forgotten. Their operation was established by a post-WWII Allied occupation forces' agreement, and missions had relative freedom to travel and collect intelligence throughout East and West Germany from 1947 until 1990.This book addresses Cold War intelligence and counterintelligence in a manner that provides a broad historical perspective and then brings the reader to a never-before documented artifact of Cold War history. The book details the intelligence/counterintelligence dynamic that was among the most emblematic of the Cold War. Ultimately, the book addresses a saga that remains one of the true Cold War enigmas.

1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of comparison, it focuses on ethnic communities of varying social structures—from Spain, Iran, Ukraine, Greece, Croatia, and Algeria—and examines the interaction between immigrant networks and West German state institutions as well as the ways in which patterns of cooperation and conflict differ. This study demonstrates how the social consequences of mass immigration became intertwined with the ideological battles of Cold War Germany and how the political life and popular movements within these immigrant communities played a crucial role in shaping West German society.

The article discusses the SVoD market in Germany against the background of the cinema market and other (pay) home cinema markets. The market is shown in a historical and contemporary perspective, also venturing into its (possible) future. Its growth, main players, audience characteristics and impact on the production industry in Germany are presented. Important points in the timeline of this market are the emergence of the first SVoD platform (2006), the launch of Netflix (2014), the outbalancing of cinema ticket sales by subscription revenues (2019), the emergence of platforms belonging to the old film studios: Disney and Paramount (2020-2022). The article also describes the phenomenon of German original productions and zooms in on the film preferences of streaming audiences. Reports from FFA, GfK, Goldmedia, as well as other publications on the German streaming market have been used. Oliver Schütte’s book The Netflix Revolution is referenced, opening and closing the discussion.

The article is devoted to the memory mechanisms ob-served in West German authors’ films on the subject of theGDR, especially the turn of 1989 and 1990. It mainly con-cerns prosthetic memory constructed on the basis of me-dia coverage, and not direct participation in the events (ep-isodic memory), which was typical for film representationsof the FRG authors (including Volker Schlöndorff, HelmaSanders-Brahms, Margarethe von Trotta). Focusing on thefirst decade after the unification also gives one a chance tocapture functional memory in its rudimentary phase, as itexploits selected and permanent motifs, facts and events(oppressive everyday life of the GDR, Stasi supervision,events from the breakthrough period, particularly the fallof the Wall, the beginning of united Germany) in order toshape and legitimize identity.

This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany's black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II. Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft follow the careers of Africans arriving from the colonies, examining why and where they settled, their working lives and their political activities, and giving unprecedented attention to gender, sexuality and the challenges of 'mixed marriage'. Addressing the networks through which individuals constituted community, Aitken and Rosenhaft explore the ways in which these relationships spread beyond ties of kinship and birthplace to constitute communities as 'black'. The study also follows a number of its protagonists to France and back to Africa, providing new insights into the roots of Francophone black consciousness and postcolonial memory. Including an in-depth account of the impact of Nazism and its aftermath, this book offers a fresh critical perspective on narratives of 'race' in German history.

No country can rival the sheer diversity of intelligence organizations that Germany has experienced over the past 300 years. Given its pivotal geographical and political position in Europe, Germany was a magnet for foreign intelligence operatives, especially during the Cold War. As a result of this, it is no wonder that during certain periods of history Germany was probably busier spying on its own citizens than on its enemies. Because of the Gestapo and the SS of Nazi Germany to the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic, the fear of domestic abuse by security agencies with police powers runs far deeper in German society than elsewhere in the West. The Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence presents the turbulent history of German intelligence through a chronology, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the agencies and agents, the operations and equipment, the tradecraft and jargon, and many of the countries involved. No military reference collection is complete without it.

In 2010, film historian Andrea von Kameke described the effect of the Hall of Mirrors in her contribution to The Cinematic Experience: Film, Contemporary Art, Museum: Not only the room is not dark, but the mirrors reflect the light and make it brighter. .. In a second Hall of Mirrors, one can see the television entertainment formats of East and West, a timetunnel covering the developments of new systems up to today's virtual reality; finally, visitors can watch more than 12,000 curated television productions in the media library. Since the museum opened in September 2000, the Deutsche Kinemathek has curated more than 60 special exhibitions, many of which have also been shown at other venues. Many of these shows have been presented in film museums around the world, for example at the ACMI (Melbourne), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles), the Cinematheque française (Paris), the Cineteca Nacional (Mexico City), Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), the Museo Nazionale (Turin), the Hong Kong Film Archive, New York's Museum of Modern Art, and the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires. An interdisciplinary project, it combined the topics of Weimar Feminin, Stars and Fans, Urbanity, Social Issues, Avant-Garde, Gender, Sports, Fashion, Pleasure and Vice, Sciences, Psychoanalysis, Politics and Censorship, Nature, Individual and Type, Cinema Architecture, Mobility, Exoticism, Interiors, and Theory and Criticism, and encompassed film extracts and exhibits from the archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek, reference works from contemporary art, everyday culture, science, design, and photography.

In The Necessity of Music , Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate’s original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, and military music enables the reader to understand music through the experiences of listeners, performers, and institutions. The Necessity of Music demonstrates that playing, experiencing, and interpreting music was a powerful factor that shaped German collective life.

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces of literature and cinema from this largely forgotten \"Second World,\" as well as by the authors formed in it and working in its aftermath, surprise and delight with their contemporary resonance. This book introduces and illuminates a number of these works. It explores how their aesthetic ingenuity discovers ways of engaging existential and universal predicaments, such as how one may survive in the world of victimizations, or imagine a good city, or broach the human boundaries to live as a plant. Like true classics of world art, these novels, stories, and films-to rephrase Bohumil Hrabal-keep \"telling us things about ourselves we don't know.\" In lively and jargon-free prose, Gordana P. Crnkovic builds on her rich teaching experience to create paths to these works and reveal how they changed lives.