Estrangement and Reconciliation: French Socialists, German Social Democrats and the Origins of European Integration, 1948-1957
Journal: D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2014

French Socialist (SFIO) and German Social Democratic (SPD) responses to early European integration initiatives indicate that there was a postwar generation of SFIO and SPD leaders who were informed by similar experiences rooted in memories, policy proposals, and outcomes from the interwar period. They formulated similar visions of the postwar period that drew upon existing socialist ideology and narratives, but at crucial moments they were perplexed as to how to respond to dilemmas that placed d