TY  - CHAP
A1  - Barclay, David Edward
A2  - Silberman, Marc
A2  - Till, Karen E.
A2  - Ward, Janet
T1  - A »Complicated Contrivance«. West Berlin behind the Wall, 1971–1989
T2  - Walls, Bounders, Boundaries. Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe
N2  - Writing in the 1960s, the novelist and essayist Wallace Stegner insisted that the postwar history of Berlin cried out for epic literary treatment: "The great book on Berlin is going to be a sort of Iliad, a story that dramatizes a power struggle in terms of the men who waged it." Indeed, the experience of Germany's once and future capital after 1945 is full of high drama and powerful personalities, from Stalin and Truman to Ernest Bevin, Lucius Clay, Ernst Reuter, Willy Brandt, Walter Ulbricht, John F, Kennedy, and the "daring young men” who flew the Airlift in 1948—49. Berlin seemed to be the epicenter of the Cold War, the site of superpower confrontation, of “wars of nerves,” of America’s “finest hour," the place where two competing political, economic, and cultural systems collided and competed spectacularly. After August 1961 it was the site of the Wall, that grisly and constant reminder of the abnormal division of the world and of a great city.
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/459
UR  - http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/material/2014-2/Barclay_2012.pdf
SP  - 113
EP  - 130
PB  - Berghahn
CY  - New York
ER  -