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| Author | : Petra Goedde |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780300090222 |
"Goedde finds that as American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly as they formed sexual relationships with women, they developed a feminized image of Germany that contrasted sharply with their wartime image of the aggressive Nazi storm trooper. A perception of German "victimhood" emerged that was fostered by the German population and adopted by Americans.
| Author | : Petra Goedde |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2014-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300211337 |
At the end of World War II roughly 300,000 American GIs were deployed as occupation forces in Germany. Many of them quickly developed intimate relations with their former enemies. Those informal interactions played a significant role in the transformation of Germany from enemy to ally of the United States, argues Petra Goedde in her engrossing book. Goedde finds that as American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly as they formed sexual relationships with women, they developed a feminized image of Germany that contrasted sharply with their wartime image of the aggressive Nazi stormtrooper. A perception of German "victimhood" emerged that was fostered by the German population and adopted by Americans. According to Goedde, this new view of Germany provided a foundation for the political rapprochement that developed between the two countries even before the advent of the Cold War. Her provocative findings suggest that the study of foreign relations should focus on interactions not only between politicians and diplomats but also between ordinary citizens.
| Author | : Maria H. Höhn |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780807853757 |
Hohn explores the encounter between Germans and the American troops stationed in the Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwest Germany, during the 1950s. Hohn shows that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were also debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, they also brought Jim Crow.
| Author | : Thomas W. Maulucci |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2013-09-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521851335 |
These fifteen essays offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany since World War Two.
| Author | : Maria Höhn |
| Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2010-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Based on an award-winning international research project and photo exhibition, this poignant and beautifully illustrated book examines the experiences of African American GIs in Germany and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Thanks in large part to its military occupation of Germany after World War II, America’s unresolved civil rights agenda was exposed to worldwide scrutiny as never before. At the same time, its ambitious efforts to democratize German society after the defeat of Nazism meant that West Germany was exposed to American ideas of freedom and democracy to a much larger degree than many other countries. As African American GIs became increasingly politicized, they took on a particular significance for the Civil Rights Movement in light of Germany’s central role in the Cold War. While the effects of the Civil Rights Movement reverberated across the globe, Germany represents a special case that illuminates a remarkable period in American and world history. Digital archive including videos, photographs, and oral history interviews available at www.breathoffreedom.org
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Americans |
| ISBN | : 9780300148039 |
| Author | : Maria Höhn |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the USA. This book explores the social, cultural and economic changes that resulted from this German-American encounter.
| Author | : Denis Hambucken |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2020-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1526756218 |
A G.I. in the Ardennes focuses on the human experience during wartime. What was life like for a regular American soldier who gave his life to combat fascism? By immersing himself in historical documents, hundreds of letters and several interviews from that period of time, Denis Hambucken managed to accurately reconstruct the daily life of an American soldier in impressive detail. The author takes a closer look at the weapons, equipment and personal belongings of the soldiers who fought at the Western front, while sharing numerous personal anecdotes and moving stories.
| Author | : Martin Wegmann |
| Publisher | : Pelagic Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2016-02-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1784270245 |
This is a book about how ecologists can integrate remote sensing and GIS in their daily work. It will allow ecologists to get started with the application of remote sensing and to understand its potential and limitations. Using practical examples, the book covers all necessary steps from planning field campaigns to deriving ecologically relevant information through remote sensing and modelling of species distributions. All practical examples in this book rely on OpenSource software and freely available data sets. Quantum GIS (QGIS) is introduced for basic GIS data handling, and in-depth spatial analytics and statistics are conducted with the software packages R and GRASS. Readers will learn how to apply remote sensing within ecological research projects, how to approach spatial data sampling and how to interpret remote sensing derived products. The authors discuss a wide range of statistical analyses with regard to satellite data as well as specialised topics such as time-series analysis. Extended scripts on how to create professional looking maps and graphics are also provided. This book is a valuable resource for students and scientists in the fields of conservation and ecology interested in learning how to get started in applying remote sensing in ecological research and conservation planning.
| Author | : Mischa Honeck |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2013-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857459546 |
The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of “race” were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.
