JOURNAL ARTICLE

German Questions, American Answers.

  • Published In: Diplomatic History, 2023, v. 47, n. 4. P. 702 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Granieri, Ronald J 3 of 3

Abstract

Using both East German government documents and records of local communities, Ostermann also demonstrates how the Soviets and the East German government, who recognized early on that their project of building a socialist state made division more likely, also sought to stabilize their regime in the face of Western challenges (234). More than thirty years after German unification, both the Germans and their neighbors continue to wrestle with the history of Cold War national division. Ostermann shows, for example, that U.S. President Harry S. Truman's administration pushed for harsher economic warfare against the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the early 1950s but ran into surprising resistance from the conservative government of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Diplomatic History. 2023/09, Vol. 47, Issue 4, p702
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Military History and Science
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0145-2096
  • DOI:10.1093/dh/dhad022
  • Accession Number:169973952
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