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Becoming East German
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain - while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
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Becoming East German : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to Communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under Communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain-- while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
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Modern Germany
Germany occupies a crucial political position in the European context. It also faces
many new challenges which have come with reunification such as coming to terms with
its history of Nazism. Modern Germany examines aspects of
contemporary political, economic, social and cultural life in the new Germany.
Using a clearly structured approach, this book explains the electoral and political
systems and underlines the significance of the federal system in Germany. The
legendary German economy, industry, education system and training are analysed in
the light of recent problems. Modern Germany also describes the
media landscape of the nation and the recent reforms to the German language and
cultural scene.
Modern Germany presents some of the key features of life in modern
Germany. It provides an accessible introduction for students of German and European
studies or the German language at all levels.
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The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany
In May of 1945, the American army, along with those of its Allies, occupied the cities and towns of Hitler's Third Reich. While most American soldiers wondered how Germany's citizens were going to feed and shelter themselves, this volume introduces the reader to another group of men who were concerned about a different form of starvation. The men of what was to become the Information Control Division (ICD) in the American Zone were preparing an antidote to 12 years of National Socialist propaganda, which was to be a steady diet of carefully selected bits of information that were calculated to change the way the German people understood the world. It was designed to transform the Germans into staunch defenders of democracy. In addition to providing the first historical overview of the activities of the ICD and the methods they employed, the book offers a unique perspective on how the US occupation utilised psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, sociologists and other academics to vet potential candidates for media licenses in Germany. The narrative takes the reader through the various steps of the process of becoming a literary publisher, newspaperman, magazine editor, radio programmer, and filmmakers, and reveals how the American Military Government in Germany used the establishment of new media empires to attempt the mass re-education of an entire nation.
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A Serious Matter and True Joy
We tend to accept that German cities and states run their own cultural institutions (concert halls, theatres, museums). This book shows how this now \"self-evident\" fact became a reality in the course of the long nineteenth century.
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Medical Propaganda and Cultural Communication: The Establishment, Development, and Influence of the German Poliklinik in Chongqing (1906-1919)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, cultural policy became a central element of Germany's expansionist foreign policy toward China.In this context, the German government had a Poliklinik established in Chongqing in 1906, intending to leverage \"medical propaganda\" to extend German influence.Despite these ambitions, the Poliklinik faced socio-political challenges and local resistance, which hindered its ability to fully realize the German government's political objectives.By the time the Poliklinik ceased operations in 1919, it had not achieved the strategic impact anticipated by Berlin.However, the Poliklinik contributed significantly to fostering mutual understanding and facilitating cross-cultural communication in the medical field between China and Germany.Thus, while initially conceived as an instrument of Germany's cultural policy, the actual social and cultural influence of the Poliklinik on Germany and China was rather constructive: it had not only enhanced the understanding of German medicine and culture among the Chinese people, but also promoted knowledge about Southwest China's medical conditions among the German academic community.
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