Antikommunismus in Film und Fernsehen der frühen Bundesrepublik

Classen, Christoph

doi:10.1524/9783486781045.275

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Effects and Changes -Turning Points In The Political Culture1

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“…What audiences wanted was light entertainment and distraction. Anticommunist topics were not popular (For more detail see Classen, 2014;Hoffmann, 2017). This is a first indicator that anticommunism in the Federal Republic underwent a change from the early 1960s onwards.…”

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‘Make life for communists as difficult as possible’ State-run anticommunism and ‘psychological warfare’ in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany

Creuzberger

2017

Asian j. Ger. Eur. stud.

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‘Make life for communists as difficult as possible’ State-run anticommunism and ‘psychological warfare’ in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany

Creuzberger

2017

Asian j. Ger. Eur. stud.

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“…There was almost no overt engagement with communism in West German films of the 1950s and 1960s, largely because during the Adenauer era political topics carried a business risk for the film industry (Classen, 2014). The general avoidance of politics was a reaction of West German society to the privations of the war and the immediate post-war period.…”

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The GDR’s Westpolitik and everyday anticommunism in West Germany

Hoffmann

2017

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West German anticommunism and the SED's Westarbeit were to some extent interrelated. From the beginning, each German state had attemted to stabilise its own social system while trying to discredit its political opponent. The claim to sole representation and the refusal to acknowledge each other delineated governmental action on both sides. Anticommunism in West Germany re-developed under the conditions of the Cold War, which allowed it to become virtually the reason of state and to serve as a tool for the exclusion of KPD supporters. In its turn, the SED branded the West German State as 'revanchist' and instrumentalised its anticommunism to persecute and eliminate opponents within the GDR. Both phenomena had an integrative and exclusionary element.

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Antikommunismus in Film und Fernsehen der frühen Bundesrepublik

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‘Make life for communists as difficult as possible’ State-run anticommunism and ‘psychological warfare’ in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany

‘Make life for communists as difficult as possible’ State-run anticommunism and ‘psychological warfare’ in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany

The GDR’s Westpolitik and everyday anticommunism in West Germany

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