By Brian C. Etheridge
On the shut of global conflict II, the us went from being allied with the Soviet Union opposed to Germany to alignment with the Germans opposed to the Soviet Union―almost in a single day. whereas many american citizens got here to understand the German humans as democrats status enterprise with their Western allies at the entrance strains of the chilly battle, others have been cautious of a renewed 3rd Reich and considered all Germans as nascent Nazis bent on global domination. those antagonistic views additional measurably to the ambience of worry and mistrust that outlined the chilly War.
In Enemies to Allies, Brian C. Etheridge examines a couple of hundred years of yank interpretations and representations of Germany. With a selected concentrate on the postwar interval, he demonstrates how a big selection of actors―including certain curiosity teams and US and West German policymakers―employed strong narratives to steer public opinion and attain their overseas coverage pursuits. Etheridge additionally analyses bestselling books, well known tv indicates corresponding to Hogan's Heroes, and award-winning video clips comparable to Schindler's List to bare how narratives in regards to the 3rd Reich and chilly struggle Germany have been synthetic, contested, and co-opted as rival viewpoints competed for legitimacy.
From the Holocaust to the Berlin Wall, Etheridge explores the contingent nature of a few of the main powerful ethical symbols and photographs of the second one 1/2 the 20 th century. This groundbreaking research attracts from theories of public reminiscence and public international relations to illustrate how conflicting US money owed of German background function a window for figuring out not just American id, yet diplomacy and country strength.
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Most important of these, perhaps, was an emerging duality between the German people and their government; positive stereotypes of Germans as cultured and educated were increasingly juxtaposed against the autocratic actions of their representatives, particularly their emperor. Indeed, as the German Empire asserted itself on the world stage, its actions—and, more important, the actions of its primary symbol, William II—became more of a focal point for American ambitions and fears. Previous qualities and stereotypes associated with Germans became more aggressive and threatening viewed in the light of these new impressions—and, more pragmatically, as the empire itself threatened American interests.
5 million and, as might be expected given its size, the character of this wave differed 24 Enemies to Allies significantly from the patterns of the eighteenth century—the Germans coming to America now came from a larger array of areas and professions, migrated for a wider variety of reasons, took advantage of a broader range of German-American institutions in settling into their new lives, and relocated to a greater number of places in the United States. As a result of this massive relocation across the Atlantic, Germans constituted one-third of all foreign-born residents in the United States by 1860.
In the run-up to the Great War and during American involvement in it, the president played a crucial role in shaping public discourse around the Germans. As Jason Flanagan has demonstrated, the evolution of how Woodrow Wilson conceived of and articulated America’s participation in the Great War was a defining moment both in America’s self-definition and in its image of Germany. For the first time, at least in foreign policy discourse, the two became linked—the notion of autocracy, as represented by the German imperial government, became the necessary foil to the purpose and the ambitions of the United States on the world stage.