Divided, But Not Disconnected

Tobias Hochscherf is Professor of Audio-Visual Media at the University of Applied Sciences at Kiel, Germany. His research interests focus on European film and television cultures. He has published widely in academic journals and edited collections. Christoph Laucht is Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include the cultural history of the nuclear age, the transnational history of the Cold War and film and history. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the impact of German emigre scientists on British nuclear culture. Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of a study on German autobiography and of numerous articles on contemporary German literature. His current research focuses on the cultural representation of the Bundeswehr.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht and Andrew Plowman Chapter 1. Divided, but not Disconnected: Germany as a Border Region of the Cold War Thomas Lindenberger Chapter 2. Fighting the First World War in the Cold War: East and West German Historiography on the Origins of the First World War, 1949-61 Matthew Stibbe Chapter 3. Divided Memory of the Holocaust during the Cold War Bill Niven Chapter 4. Commemorating Luther: Contested Memories and the Cold War Jon Berndt Olsen Chapter 5. The Third World Origins of the Consensual Turn: West German Labor Internationalism and the Cold War Quinn Slobodian Chapter 6. The German Question and Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962 Sheldon Anderson Chapter 7. From Bulwark of Peace to Cosmopolitan Cocktails: Marketing West Berlin as a Cold War Showcase from the 1960s to the 1970s Michelle A. Standley Chapter 8. Projections of History: East German Film-Makers and the Berlin Wall Sean Allan Chapter 9. Defending the Border? Satirical Treatments of the Bundeswehr after the 1960s Andrew Plowman Chapter 10. East versus West: Olympic Sport as a German Cold War Phenomenon Christopher Young Chapter 11. Glimpses through the Iron Curtain: German Feature Film Import into the G.D.R. Rosemary Stott Chapter 12. Visual Representation, the Male Hero, and the Transfer of Images in the Cold War Inge Marszolek Chapter 13. Re-enacting the First Battle of the Cold War: Post-Wall German Television Confronts the Berlin Airlift in Die Luftbrucke - Nur der Himmel war frei Tobias Hochscherf and Christoph Laucht Chapter 14. Unusual Censor Readings: G.D.R. Science Fiction and the Ministry of Culture Patrick Major Chapter 15. Funerals in Berlin: The Geopolitical and Cultural Spaces of the Cold War James Chapman Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

"[A] timely and important contribution to the current scholarship on the Cold War and the critical reassessment of Cold War history within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational framework - The editors are to be commended for promoting a comparative perspective in the individual essays themselves and through the thoughtful selection of topics from East and West German perspectives." * Sabine Hake, University of Texas, Austin