GIS and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949

by Petra Goedde

At the end of World War II roughly 300,000 American GIs were deployed as occupation forces in Germany. Many of them quickly developed intimate relations with their former enemies. Those informal interactions played a significant role in the transformation of Germany from enemy to ally of the United States, argues Petra Goedde in her engrossing book.

Goedde finds that as American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly as they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300211333
• ISBN13: 9780300211337
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"