West Germany and the Iron Curtain
Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11478844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Tompkins (0000-0002-6044-2316, University of Sheffield and Universität Erfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 330-332 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-089X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/gerhis/ghab008 |
| OpenAlex | W3143210295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In different forms, the ‘Iron Curtain’ was a constant presence throughout the first forty years of the Federal Republic of Germany’s existence; its traces, physical and symbolic, remain visible even thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Precisely because ‘the Iron Curtain magnified all activities and occurrences within its orbit’ (p. 5), it constitutes a powerful lens for investigating German history, as Astrid Eckert demonstrates in her insightful and highly readable environmental history of West Germany’s eastern borderlands. Eckert focuses her study on the broad strip of land within the Federal Republic that bordered the GDR. These ‘zonal borderlands’ were constituted as a unit through efforts by very different communities to procure federal subsidies by claiming to be economic victims of Cold War division. In Lower Saxony alone, regional aid to the eastern borderlands (Zonenrandförderung) flowed to both rural, sparsely populated Lüchow-Dannenberg (directly adjacent to the...
Archaeology · Cold war · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · German · Iron Curtain · Political science · Politics · Subsidy · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |