... to, an emerging and then dominant Cold War culture. © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 Billy Wilder’s Cold War Berlin David Bathrick Billy Wilder’s decision to return to Germany as a U.S. colonel at the close of World War II emanated from personal...

... and the changing uses to which those metaphorics have been put. © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 Wall and Tunnel: The Spatial Metaphorics of Cold War Berlin David L. Pike Like all of the great modernist cities of Europe, Berlin had a venerable...

...Klaus R. Scherpe At the very height of the Cold War, Wolfgang Koeppen reported on the political pecularities and abnormalities he encountered on his travels in the United States and the Soviet Union. Koeppen's texts perform a fascinating rewriting of the sentimental journey, choosing...

...Andreas Huyssen The essay surveys how German painting East and West has dealt with the Third Reich and the Holocaust and how it is shaped by the Cold War confrontation. The comparison of East and West German art opens up both affinities and differences that challenge the lingering Cold War view...

...Reinhold Martin The Last War: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin Referring to the “checkmate” performed by advanced capitalism despite the Shklov skian “knightʼs moves” attempted by the modernist avant-gardes...

...Brian M. Puaca The development of West German history textbooks from 1945 through the mid-1960s offers a way to understand what young West Germans were supposed to learn about their country's role in and experience of World War II. Several of the most widely used history textbooks during...

...Yuliya Komska Although the terms postwar and Cold War evoke presumably divergent experiences, events, and memories, they continue to be used interchangeably. Awareness of this referential tension dates to the 1950s, yet scholars still have neither articulated nor fully explored the meaning...

...Sven-Erik Rose This article traces the vexed reception of one document from the Oyneg Shabes archive, the vast underground archive assembled in the Warsaw Ghetto under Emanuel Ringelblum's leadership and largely recovered after World War II. Yehoshue Perle's Khurbn Varshe ( Destruction of Warsaw...

... to the original Bauhaus and the chief repositories of its art and related documentation. In addition, German scholars, along with their American and English counterparts, have deconstructed Cold War myths about the school and questioned its relevance as an antifascist bulwark of democratic and/or socialist ideals...

... Remapping Relief and Rescue: Flight, Displacement, and International Aid for Jewish Refugees during World War II Atina Grossmann This article, part of a work in progress, seeks to suggest another reading of war and Holocaust...

...Ofer Ashkenazi; Udi Greenberg; Noah B. Strote © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction: From Weimar to the Cold War Ofer Ashkenazi, Udi Greenberg...

...Timo Pankakoski This article analyzes the linguistic means Ernst Jünger employed to construct the relationship between war and politics in his early political writings. These include military metaphors, the topos of transferring elements from war to politics, depicting politics as the continuation...

... after its resurgence, whether political theology means quite the same now as it did in the era of its birth. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 On the Origins of “Political Theology”: Judaism and Heresy between the World Wars Benjamin Lazier History...

... adventures, he not only reflected on the change of foreign politics in the aftermath of World War I but set out to argue for the Weimar Republic to become a Western democracy. His defense of the parliamentary system, his claim for a democratic capitalism, his plea for European unity, and his early critique...

... to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II. See Ward, “Globalization and the Remembrance of Violence,” 98–99. 130  Encountering Lateness Figure 5. Arwed Messmer and Annett Gröschner, Potsdamer Platz Anno Zero #11, 1995. 50 × 64 cm C-print from the series Potsdamer Platz Anno...

...Andrés Mario Zervigón This essay investigates the little-known early film work of the German photomontagist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld in 1891). A firm opponent of World War I and an early member of Berlin's rambunctious Dada movement, Heartfield nonetheless agreed to produce...

...; the building's location in a city undergoing an urban renewal program; and its reception in academic, professional, and public media during the competition, after it was built, and after September 11. The shift from triumphalist to apologetic memorials during the late Cold War era reflects the growing need...