Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands - The Cold War in the German Borderlands

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Eerie

1. Calamity, 1945-52


2. Elimination, 1952


3. Fighting Mood, 1952-60


4. Admonition, 1960-61


5. Bleak, 1961-89


6. Ass of the World, 1961-89

Epilogue: Dream
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jason B. Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Trinity University, USA.

Summary

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 obscenity than its eponym to the north."
The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Mödlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Mödlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Mödlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division.

Product details

• Authors: Jason B. Johnson, Jason B. (Trinity University Johnson, Jason B. (University of Ottawa Johnson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138369511
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36951-1
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, General and world history, History and Archaeology, The Cold War, West Germany, East Germany, Ddr, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General