03345cam a2200385 i 4500 330797070 TxAuBib 20140721120000.0 110210s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011005112 9780199737048 hbk. : acid-free paper 0199737045 hbk. : acid-free paper DLC eng DLC IG# VP@ UKMGB YDXCP MIX CDX BWX BUR COO BTCTA IAK GWDNB SPW SKYRV rda TxAuBib rda Sheffer, Edith. Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain / Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider. Oxford [UK : Oxford University Press, 2011. New York : Oxford University Press, [2011] ©2011. xvii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-342) and index. Part 1: Demarcation line, 1945-1952. Foundations : Burned Bridge ; Insecurity : border mayhem ; Inequality : economic divides ; Kickoff : political skirmishing -- Part 2: "Living wall", 1952-1961. Shock : border closure and deportation ; Shift : everyday boundaries ; Surveillance : individual controls -- Part 3: Iron curtain, 1961-1989. Home : life in the prohibited zone ; Fault line : life in the fortifications ; Disconnect : East-West relations -- Epilogue : new divides -- Appendix 1: Population movement, East Germany -- Appendix 2: Population movement, Sonneberg -- Appendix 3: Escapees, refugees, and legal emigrants from East Germany, 1961-1990. The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, this book reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's in-depth account focuses on the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War, townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. Sheffer describes how smuggling, kidnapping, rape, and killing in the early postwar years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides--long before East Germany fortified its 1,393-kilometer border with West Germany. Indeed, Sheffer shows that the physical border was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was in some part an improvised outgrowth of an anxious postwar society.--From publisher description. 20150110. Boundaries Social aspects Germany History 20th century. Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989. Cold War. Germany (East) Relations Germany (West.) Germany (West) Relations Germany (East.) Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany) History 20th century. Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany) History 20th century. Germany History 1945-1990.