ISBN:
9780807860328
,
0807827061
,
0807853755
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Edition:
2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Höhn, Maria, 1955 - GIs and Fräuleins
Parallel Title:
Print version GIs and Fräuleins
DDC:
306.094343
Keywords:
Sozialgeschichte
;
Kriegsfolgen
;
Soldaten
;
Frauen
;
Rheinland-Pfalz
;
Deutschland
;
Soziale Beziehungen
;
USA
;
Soldat
;
Militär
;
Rheinland-Pfalz
;
Nachkriegsdeutschland
;
Nachkriegszeit
;
Geschichte, 1950-1960
;
Germany ; History ; 1945-
;
Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) ; Economic conditions
;
Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) ; Social conditions
;
United States ; Armed Forces ; Germany ; Rhineland-Palatinate Region
;
Electronic books
;
Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Economic conditions
;
United States Armed Forces
;
Germany History 1945-
;
Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Social conditions
;
USA
;
Militär
;
Besatzungstruppe
;
Rheinland-Pfalz
;
Geschichte 1950-1955
;
US-Soldat
;
Frau
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1. "...And Then the Americans Came Again -- Notes -- 2. Living with the New Neighbors -- Notes -- 3. When Jim Crow Came to the German Heimat -- Notes -- 4. Heimat in Turmoil -- Notes -- 5. Controlling the "Veronikas" and "Soldiers' Brides -- Notes -- 6. Keeping America at Bay -- Notes -- 7. Punishing the "Veronikas -- Notes -- 8. The Kaiserslautern Steinstrasse Affair -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in morality that accompanied the troops to the provinces. Conservatives condemned the jazz clubs and striptease parlors that Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe opened to cater to the troops, and they expressed scorn toward the German women who eagerly pursued white and black American GIs. While most Germans rejected the conservative effort to punish as prostitutes all women who associated with American GIs, they vilified the sexual relationships between African American men and German women. Hohn demonstrates that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were always debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, it also brought Jim Crow.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. ""...And Then the Americans Came Again""; 2. Living with the New Neighbors; 3. When Jim Crow Came to the German Heimat; 4. Heimat in Turmoil; 5. Controlling the ""Veronikas"" and ""Soldiers' Brides""; 6. Keeping America at Bay; 7. Punishing the ""Veronikas""; 8. The Kaiserslautern Steinstrasse Affair; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Bibliogr. S. [297] - 325, Index
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