{"product_id":"gis-and-fruleins-maria-hhn-9780807853757","title":"GIs and Fr舫leins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany","description":"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 installations outside the United States. In \u003ci\u003eGIs and Frauleins\u003c\/i\u003e, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in morality that accompanied the troops to the provinces. Conservatives condemned the jazz clubs and striptease parlors that Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe opened to cater to the troops, and they expressed scorn toward the German women who eagerly pursued white and black American GIs. While most Germans rejected the conservative effort to punish as prostitutes all women who associated with American GIs, they vilified the sexual relationships between African American men and German women. Hohn demonstrates that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were always debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, it also brought Jim Crow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Hn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807853755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807853757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.24w x 0.82d","brand":"Maria Hn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634255065343,"sku":"9780807853757","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_beb13643-675a-45af-9b4c-7e5c6623b92f.jpg?v=1703588355","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gis-and-fruleins-maria-hhn-9780807853757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}