It is only with the benefit of hindsight that the Germans have become acutely aware of how profound and comprehensive was the impact of the United States on their society after 1945.This volume reflect the ubiquitousness of this impact and examines the German responses to it.
Contributions by well-known scholars cover politics, industry, social life and mass culture.
... an important building block for further research * Historische Zeitschrift
Reiner Pommerin is a German historian with a focus on German and international political and military history of the 18th to 21st Century.
Preface
P. Schmitt
Chapter 1. The United States and the Armament of the Federal Republic of Germany
R. Pommerin
Chapter 2. Culture and Authority: American and German Transactions
P. K. Breit
Chapter 3. Ambivalence and Attraction: The German Social Democrats and the United States, 1945-1974
D. Orlow
Chapter 4. West German Reconstruction and American Industrial Culture, 1945-1960
V. R. Berghahn
Chapter 5. Daily Life and Social Patterns
H. Glaser
Chapter 6. The Tabooifying of the GDR
G. Kleinfeld
Chapter 7. Rebels Without a Cause?
R. Moeller and U. Poiger
Chapter 8. Cinema, Spectatorship, and the Problems of Postwar German Identity
H. Fehrenbach
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index