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1 online resource (811 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE DEMARCATION LINE, 1945-1952; 1. Foundations: Burned Bridge; 2. Insecurity: Border Mayhem; 3. Inequality: Economic Divides; 4. Kickoff: Political Skirmishing; PART TWO "LIVING WALL," 1952-1961; 5. Shock: Border Closure and Deportation; 6. Shift: Everyday Boundaries; 7. Surveillance: Individual Controls; PART THREE IRON CURTAIN, 1961-1989; 8. Home: Life in the Prohibited Zone; 9. Fault Line: Life in the Fortifications; 10. Disconnect: East-West Relations; Epilogue: New Divides; Appendix 1; Appendix 2 |
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Appendix 3Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented, in-depth account focuses on Burned Bridge--the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demo |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Boundaries -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Boundaries -- Social aspects
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International relations
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Germany -- History -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001545
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Germany (East) -- Relations -- Germany (West)
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Germany (West) -- Relations -- Germany (East)
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Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany) -- History -- 20th century
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Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany) -- 20th century
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Germany
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Germany (East)
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Germany -- Neustadt bei Coburg
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Germany -- Sonneberg (Thuringia)
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Germany (West)
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199911615 |
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0199911614 |
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