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

Contents; Acknowledgments; A note on naming conventions and language; Introduction; Literature; An epistemic community crafting political narratives for democratization; Sources; Organization of the book; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 1: Berlin, capital of ruins, 1945−1948; I. Decisions made and deferred at Potsdam, July 1945; II. Berlin, Soviet prize of war; III. Competing narratives in interpreting postwar Berlin; IV. The contested meaning of democracy; V. Escalation, 1947‒1948; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Origins of the Outpost network, 1933‒1949; I. Political fragmentation of the German Left, 1932‒1941; II. Wartime Exile in New York City, 1941‒1949; III. Support for "freedom" and origin of the Outpost network; IV. Reconstitution of the Outpost network in West Berlin; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Rise of the Outpost narrative in the wake of the Berlin airlift, 1948‒1953; I. The Berlin airlift as embodiment of the Outpost narrative; II. Berlin activities of Shepard Stone’s Public Affairs Division; III. RIAS, the network’s principal media outlet; IV. Campaigns to institute Cold War democracy in West Berlin; V. Campaigns to remake postwar social democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Triple crisis, 1953; I. Background: waging the Cultural Cold War; II. Uprising in East Berlin; III. The GDR’s obsession with RIAS; III. McCarthyism reaches West Berlin; IV. Reuter’s death and the network’s resilience; V. 1953 as watershed; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Ascent to leadership, 1954–1961; I. The emergence of Willy Brandt as new figurehead of the network; II. Brandt as new SPD candidate for a new West Berlin; III. Coordinated activities of the network; IV. Fashioning West Berlin as the Cold War democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Public acceptance and reinterpretation, 1961–1972; I. Construction of the Wall as a turning point for network and narrative; II. Broad acceptance of the narrative and creeping disillusionment of the Network; III. Marginalization of the past in exile for national leadership in Bonn; IV. Holdouts in Berlin facing a new generation of leftwing activists; V. Berlin as laboratory of Chancellor Brandt’s Neue Ostpolitik; Notes; Bibliography; Conclusion: Excavating the Outpost of Freedom on the Spree; I. The city; II. The narrative; III. The network; IV. The legacies; Bibliography; Glossary

Biography

Scott H. Krause is Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University Berlin.

"It is a deeply researched book that makes it a worthwhile and illuminating read." - Volker Berghahn, Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte

The dissertation on which this book is based won the Willy Brandt Prize for Contemporary History, 2017.

“Scott Krause's work delivers important insights into the Social Democratic exile and its contribution to the reconstitution of West Berlin. It allows an in-depth understanding of US occupation and Cold War policy at the time. We are delighted to award Scott Krause with the Willy Brandt Prize for Contemporary History”, Wolfgang Thierse, chairman the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation's board of trustees.

The Willy Brandt Prize for Contemporary History is awarded every two years by the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation to an outstanding academic paper, dissertation or habilitation. The work must focus on the work and legacy of Willy Brandt or on a specific chapter of contemporary history related to his name and his political life.