German Division as Shared Experience

German Division as Shared ExperienceDespite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were

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