Begins with documents from late 1953 when the Eisenhower administration began to formulate its Berlin contingency plans and closes with a series of newly declassified State Department histories from the late 1960s.
Documents on the history of the Berlin Wall, beginning with the conditions in Berlin and East Germany following WWII and the history of the wall's construction in 1961, and followed by the 1971 Four Power Negotiations on the status of Berlin, and the final tearing down of the Wall in 1989.
A collection of primary source materials in German (with English translations) documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present.
This collection of films reveals war, history, current affairs, culture, and society, as seen through the socialist lens. It covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, and Cuba. [1917-1989]
Sourced from the archives of the British Film Institute (BFI), Socialism on Film documents the communist world from the Russian Revolution through to the late 1980s. The digitized films cover all aspects of the socialist experience from everyday life and society to culture, the Cold War, memory and current affairs. Geographically the films deal with the Soviet Union alongside groupings of material on Vietnam, China, Korea, the German Democratic Republic, and Eastern Europe, Britain, Spain, Latin America, and Cuba.
Call Number: Main (Gardner) Stacks ; J64a .F7 86th v.5
Collection of documents prepared by U.S. State Department historians related to Germany from the end of World War II up to the late Cold War. Available online at HathiTrust.
Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994