The other alliance : student protest in West Germany and the United States in the global sixties
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The other alliance : student protest in West Germany and the United States in the global sixties
（America in the world）
Princeton University Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Using previously classified documents and original interviews, "The Other Alliance" examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the 'sit-in' or 'teach-in' became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany - the German Socialist Student League - and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism.
Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances. Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents, "The Other Alliance" is a pioneering work of transnational history.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: SDS Meets SDS 10 CHAPTER 2: Between Berkeley and Berlin, Frankfurt and San Francisco: The Networks and Nexus of Transnational Protest 40 CHAPTER 3: Building the Second Front: The Transatlantic Antiwar Alliance 75 CHAPTER 4: Black and Red Panthers 108 CHAPTER 5: The Other Alliance and the Transatlantic Partnership 143 CHAPTER 6: Student Protest and International Relations 194 CONCLUSION 236 Notes 247 List of Sources 325 Index 329
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