Karrin Hanshew examines West German responses to 1970s terrorism to explain why the experience had lasting significance for German politics and society.

With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installation

By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of

West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the

“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assu