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Developing Western Cultures under the Threat of the Cold War. Important slice of West Germanys social history during a transitionary period, and how the division of East from West shaped the traditional attitudes of German youth post-Second World War.Far from some dry interpretation of what life was like, here the reader experiences the car crash of where traditional German values met westernized decadence head on.Follows the story through the formative years of the late 1940s, to the arrival of rock-n-roll, bubble gum, trendy clothes and attitude, all set against the political backdrop of the emerging Cold War.This work represents more |