GIs and Germans : culture, gender and foreign relations, 1945-1949

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Label

GIs and Germans : culture, gender and foreign relations, 1945-1949

Title remainder

culture, gender and foreign relations, 1945-1949

Statement of responsibility

Petra Goedde

Creator

• Goedde, Petra, 1964-

Subject

• Civil-military relations -- Germany (West)
• Germany (West) -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
• Germany -- History -- 1945-1955
• Germany -- Relations -- United States
• Americans -- Germany (West) -- Social conditions
• United States -- Armed Forces | Foreign service -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany (West)
• United States -- History -- 1945-1953
• United States -- Relations -- Germany
• Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"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 storm trooper. 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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

943.0874

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DD257

LC item number

.G59 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography