Tag: West Germany

  • Liberals like myself like to embrace and demand diversity, but we often come up with flawed arguments; Fassbinder has taught me that this can backfire with catastrophic consequences – Victor Fraga reflects on the 1974 classic ‘Fear Eats the Soul’, as the film reaches UK cinemas

  • On January 1, 1955, there were approximately four thousand mischlingskinder2 in the West German Republic. This number is still increasing by 250 to 350 a year. More than 70 per cent of the children are living with their mothers, and about 5 per cent with other relatives—grandparents, aunts, etc. About 12 per cent are in…

  • Race as International Identity? ‘Miscegenation’ in the U.S. Occupation of Japan and Beyond Amerikastudien / American Studies Volume 48, Number 1, Internationalizing U.S. History (2003) pages 61-77 Yukiko Koshiro The article attempts to retrieve the story of the little-known fate of so-called mixed-blood children, those born to American GIs and Japanese women in the aftermath…

  • GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany University of North Carolina Press December 2001 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 13 photos, 1 map, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5375-7 Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state…