Enemies to Allies: Cold War Germany and American Memory

At the close of World War II, the United States went from being allied with the Soviet Union against Germany to alignment with the Germans against the Soviet Union-almost overnight. While many Americans came to perceive the German people as democrats standing firm with their Western allies on the front lines of the Cold War, others were wary of a renewed Third Reich and viewed all Germans as nascent Nazis bent on world domination. These adversarial perspectives added measurably to the atmosphere

Author: Brian C. Etheridge
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01/08/2016
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780813166407

About the Author

Brian C. Etheridge is professor of history and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Georgia Gwinnett College. A past recipient of the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is a coeditor of The United States and Public Diplomacy: The New International History Meets the New Cultural History.

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