GIs and Fräuleins
Subtitle: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807853757
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; International relations; Social History; Social conditions; History: World; Germany; History; History - General History; USA; West Germany; Minority Studies - General; Europe - Germany; History / Germany; Social Science / Minority Studies; Social Science-Minority Studies - General; Social Science-Social History; United States; Armed Forces; Economic conditions; Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany); Rhineland-Palatinate Region
First sentence: In the course of 1950-51, more than 100,000 American soldiers and their dependents came to Rhineland-Palatinate, a largely rural state in the southwest of Germany.
Description: Hohn explores the encounter between Germans and the American troops stationed in the Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwest Germany, during the 1950s. Hohn shows that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were also debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, they also brought Jim Crow.