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Informationen zum Autor Annika Frieberg is an Assistant Professor of History at San Diego State University. Her research and teaching focus on war and genocide, gender, conflict resolution, media, national, and transnational questions in Central Europe. She is the co-editor of the volume Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective (Routledge, 2017). Klappentext Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War. And such efforts were not confined to official diplomacy, as this study of postwar rapprochement between Poland and West Germany demonstrates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities. Zusammenfassung Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Unexpected Meetings and New Beginnings. Inspirations, Transformations, and Opportunities, 1939-1958 Chapter 2. Victims, Heroes, and Dark Reflections: Polish Travelers, West German Journalists, and the New Relations, 1958-1964 Chapter 3. Radio Relations: Klaus von Bismarck, Poland, and the Audiovisual Media Institutes Chapter 4. Televising the Territorial Conflict: Documentary Portrayals of Polish-German Relations Chapter 5. Of Forgiving and Forgetting: The Religious Memoranda and the Media, 1961-1968 Chapter 6. Brandt-ing Reconciliation: Politics, Media, and New Relations, 1968-1972 Chapter 7. Remembering and Rewriting Reconciliation: The 1990s Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
