John Willoughby, Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Postwar American Occupation of Germany . New York: Palgrave, 2001. xiii + 187 pp. $45.00 cloth.
Identifieur interne : 000682 ( Main/Exploration ); précédent : 000681; suivant : 000683John Willoughby, Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Postwar American Occupation of Germany . New York: Palgrave, 2001. xiii + 187 pp. $45.00 cloth.
Auteurs : Maria Höhn [États-Unis]Source :
- International Labor and Working-Class History [ 0147-5479 ] ; 2004-04.
Abstract
Scholars in both the US and Germany have studied the American occupation of Germany extensively. Until recently, however, much of that work focused on the emerging Cold War rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union to explain the rapid shift from an occupation intended to punish the Germans to one that increasingly included West Germans as partners and allies. While not dismissing the importance of the Cold War struggle in shaping US foreign policy, John Willoughby suggests that a more comprehensive understanding of how American power was projected during the Cold War is only possible if attention is shifted from the policy makers in Washington to the players on the ground. By exploring how the American military government dealt with the chaotic social and economic conditions within Germany, the widespread disciplinary problems of American GIs, and the pervasive racism within the military, Willoughby makes a compelling argument that US foreign policy and the “institutions of occupation” were transformed by the “more mundane problems of social control and organizational capability” (3). The American objectives in Germany changed, not because of the Cold War, but because financial pressures, personnel shortages, and economic disarray forced military authorities to hand over power to the Germans much sooner than envisioned by Washington. While Willoughby—by his own admission—does not provide new material to the professional historian of the era, his book nonetheless offers a fresh interpretation that draws on social and cultural history while also paying attention to race and gender.
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