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1612-6041
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My Road to Berlin, or Mein Weg nach Berlin, presents a Willy Brandt that confounds a present-day reader’s expectations. While the 1960 autobiography of the then-mayor of West Berlin links his career with the familiar story of democracy’s development in Germany, this work nevertheless retains an unexpected edge. In one surprising scene, the mayor denounces his East Berlin SED counterparts as a ›Communist foreign legion‹ whom ›the citizens of my city had decisively defeated‹ during the Second Berlin Crisis of 1958 (p. 17). In the book, Brandt comes off as a Cold Warrior of steely determination rather than a Brückenbauer bridging ideological divides. Far from being out of character, however, My Road to Berlin captures Brandt at a pivotal moment in his career, when he sought to offer himself to both West German voters and a global public as a viable alternative to Konrad Adenauer.
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In:
Zeithistorische Forschungen, Potsdam : Zentrum für Zeithist. Forschung, 2004, 14(2017), 1, Seite 163-170, 1612-6041
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volume:14
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year:2017
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number:1
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pages:163-170
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Krause, Scott H. The presentation of a cold warrior 2017
Language:
German
Keywords:
Brandt, Willy 1913-1992
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DOI:
10.14765/zzf.dok.4.768
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Author information:
Krause, Scott H.
