Beyond the Border
Subtitle: Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781789201741
Subjects: Germans, foreign countries; Danes; Minority youth; Cold war; Denmark, social conditions; Germany, ethnic relations
Description: "In the nineteenth century, the hotly disputed border region between Denmark and Germany was the focus of an intricate conflict that complicates questions of ethnic and national identity even today. Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of both Danish and German minority youths living in the area from the 1950s to the 1970s, a period in which relations remained tense amid the broader developments of Cold War geopolitics. Drawing on a remarkable variety of archival and oral sources, the author provides a rich and fine-grained analysis that encompasses political issues from the NATO alliance and European integration to everyday life and popular culture"--