Built around papers delivered at an international conference on German-American relations, held in Heidelberg in 2000, the essays in this volume are supplemented by a welcome statistical summary of American personnel stationed in Germany from 1945 to 2000 and an extremely useful bibliography of important scholarly publications on German-American military cooperation and the sociocultural impact of this relationship.
This is why GIs in Germany is such a welcome and valuable publication. But in spite of such a host, only a limited amount of detailed research has been conducted on this complex liaison between former enemies who became Cold War allies. Collectively, they outnumber the population of many countries. A lot of Germans wanted us out.”ĭePew was just another American kid when he joined the army and went to Germany, but as he points out in his memoir, his memories of that service can be matched with those of “millions of Americans were stationed in Germany during the Cold War.” In fact, some twenty-two million Americans have lived for extended time in Germany since 1945, as military personnel, civilian employees, or members of their families. This one was expected to be one of the largest ever because of the tensions with the Soviets over the Pershings and some treaty the President was discussing with the Russians. Every Easter, anti-nuke peace protestors held a big demonstration. The CO told us to be ready to respond to the site in force. we were alerted on Easter weekend and had to report to a special formation. At the time, it looked like there was razor wire everywhere!.
was a double fence ten or twelve feet tall, with razor wire at the top and razor wire at the bottom. In his memoir, DePew wrote: “The perimeter of site was a paved trail and a grass verge. DePew was a “tower rat,” routinely mounting guard over the fenced-in American base. In 1987, Doug DePew was an American infantryman, serving at an American base that housed tactical nuclear warheads. Over There: Lessons from America’s Martial Presence in Germany
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