The Resource Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain, Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider
Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain, Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider
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- Summary
- The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, this book reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's in-depth account focuses on the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War, townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. Sheffer describes how smuggling, kidnapping, rape, and killing in the early postwar years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides--long before East Germany fortified its 1,393-kilometer border with West Germany. Indeed, Sheffer shows that the physical border was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was in some part an improvised outgrowth of an anxious postwar society.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 357 pages
- Contents
-
- Foundations : Burned Bridge
- Insecurity : border mayhem
- Inequality : economic divides
- Kickoff : political skirmishing
- Shock : border closure and deportation
- Shift : everyday boundaries
- Surveillance : individual controls
- Home : life in the prohibited zone
- Fault line : life in the fortifications
- Disconnect : East-West relations
- Epilogue : new divides
- Isbn
- 9780199737048
- Label
- Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain
- Title
- Burned Bridge
- Title remainder
- how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain
- Statement of responsibility
- Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider
- Subject
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- Boundaries -- Social aspects
- Boundaries -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Deutsch-deutsche Grenze
- Deutschland (BRD)
- Deutschland (DDR)
- Germany
- Germany (East)
- Germany (East) -- Relations -- Germany (West)
- Germany (West)
- Germany (West) -- Relations -- Germany (East)
- 1900-1999
- Germany -- Neustadt bei Coburg
- Germany -- Sonneberg (Thuringia)
- Geschichte
- Grenze
- History
- International relations
- Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany) -- History -- 20th century
- Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany) -- History -- 20th century
- Germany -- History -- 1945-1990
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, this book reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's in-depth account focuses on the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War, townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. Sheffer describes how smuggling, kidnapping, rape, and killing in the early postwar years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides--long before East Germany fortified its 1,393-kilometer border with West Germany. Indeed, Sheffer shows that the physical border was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was in some part an improvised outgrowth of an anxious postwar society.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sheffer, Edith
- Dewey number
- 943.087
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DD284.5.G3
- LC item number
- S54 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Germany (East)
- Germany (West)
- Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany)
- Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany)
- Boundaries
- Germany
- Boundaries
- International relations
- Germany
- Germany (East)
- Germany
- Germany
- Germany (West)
- Deutsch-deutsche Grenze
- Grenze
- Deutschland (BRD)
- Deutschland (DDR)
- Germany (East)
- Germany (West)
- Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany)
- Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany)
- Boundaries
- Germany
- Label
- Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain, Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-342) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Foundations : Burned Bridge -- Insecurity : border mayhem -- Inequality : economic divides -- Kickoff : political skirmishing -- Shock : border closure and deportation -- Shift : everyday boundaries -- Surveillance : individual controls -- Home : life in the prohibited zone -- Fault line : life in the fortifications -- Disconnect : East-West relations -- Epilogue : new divides
- Control code
- ocn701622846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199737048
- Lccn
- 2011005112
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Specific material designation
- unspecified
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780199737048
- (OCoLC)701622846
- Label
- Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain, Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-342) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Foundations : Burned Bridge -- Insecurity : border mayhem -- Inequality : economic divides -- Kickoff : political skirmishing -- Shock : border closure and deportation -- Shift : everyday boundaries -- Surveillance : individual controls -- Home : life in the prohibited zone -- Fault line : life in the fortifications -- Disconnect : East-West relations -- Epilogue : new divides
- Control code
- ocn701622846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199737048
- Lccn
- 2011005112
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Specific material designation
- unspecified
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780199737048
- (OCoLC)701622846
Subject
- Boundaries -- Social aspects
- Boundaries -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Deutsch-deutsche Grenze
- Deutschland (BRD)
- Deutschland (DDR)
- Germany
- Germany (East)
- Germany (East) -- Relations -- Germany (West)
- Germany (West)
- Germany (West) -- Relations -- Germany (East)
- 1900-1999
- Germany -- Neustadt bei Coburg
- Germany -- Sonneberg (Thuringia)
- Geschichte
- Grenze
- History
- International relations
- Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany) -- History -- 20th century
- Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany) -- History -- 20th century
- Germany -- History -- 1945-1990
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