GIs in Germany (eBook, PDF)

The Social, Economic, Cultural, and Political History of the American Military Presence
Redaktion: Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr

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Produktbeschreibung

The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. The American military forces in the Federal Republic of Germany after WWII played an important role not just in the NATO military alliance but also in German-American relations as a whole. Around twenty-two-million US servicemen and their dependants have been stationed in Germany since WWII, and their presence has contributed to one of the few successful American attempts at democratic nation building in the twentieth century. In the social and cultural realm the GIs helped to Americanize Germany, and their own German experiences influenced the US civil rights movement and soldier radicalism. The US military presence also served as a bellwether for overall relations between the two countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316047934
• Artikelnr.: 54259841

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr; Part I. Strategy and Politics: 1.
Guarantors of peace and freedom: the US forces in Germany, 1945-90
Hans-Joachim Harder; 2. Deterrence and defense: the stationing of US troops
in Germany and the implementation of forward strategy in Europe, 1950-67
Bruno Thosse; 3. The war that was never fought: the US army, the
Bundeswehr, and the NATO central front Dennis Showalter; 4. Why they did
not go home: the GIs and the battle over their presence in the 1960s and
1970s Hubert Zimmermann; Part II. Military Communities: 5. United States
army military communities in Germany Thomas Leuerer; 6. German-American
relations at the local level: Heidelberg, 1948-55 Theodor Scharnholz; 7.
American military families in West Germany: social, cultural, and foreign
relations, 1946-65 Donna Alvah; Part III. Tensions between Neighbors: 8.
Insolent occupiers, aggressive protectors: policing GI delinquency in early
1950s Germany Gerhard Fürmetz; 9. Protection from the protector:
court-martial cases and the lawlessness of occupation in
American-controlled Berlin, 1945-8 Jennifer V. Evans; Part IV. The German
Armed Forces and the American Model: 10. The godfathers of Innere Führung?
The American military model and the creation of the Bundeswehr Klaus
Naumann; 11. From Befehlsausgabe to 'briefing': the Americanization of the
Luftwaffe Wolfgang Schmidt; Part V. The 1970s and 1980s: 12. 'Army in
anguish': the United States army, Europe in the early 1970s Alexander
Vazansky; 13. The US military and dissenters in the ranks: Germany 1970-5
Howard J. De Nike; 14. The US armed forces and the development of anti-NATO
protests in West Germany, 1980-9 Anni Baker; 15. GIs under seige: the
German peace movement confronts the US military Lou Martin; Appendix:
population statistics on the US armed forces in Germany, 1945-2000 Dewey
Browder.