Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin: A Shared German-American Project, 1940-1972

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany’s former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transformation resulted from a network of liberal American occupation officials, and returned émigrés, or remigrés, of the Marxist Social Democratic Party (SPD).

This network derived from lengthy physical and political journeys. After fleeing Hitler, German-speaking self-professed "revolutionary sociali...