What Now? Europe in the

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What Now?Europe in the 50s
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VI/1. Aftermath Devastation Hope

1. Spender, Witness
2. Frank, D.P.s
3. Foa, Europe in Ruins
4. UN Charter
5. Marshall, Foundations

ST. LO, FRANCE, 1944
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What if anything could be done with the
rubble that Europe had become?
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VI/2. Recent Past Western Consciousness

• 6. Cassirer, Myth
• 7. Hallowell, Crisis
• 8. Orwell, 1984
• 9. Sartre, Existence
• precedes Essence

BERLIN, 1945
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Can we make sense of any of this? Sartre and
Orwell
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VI/3. The New West Germany the Nazi Past

• 10. Adenauer, Politics Ideals
• 11. Meinecke, Catastrophe
• 12. Vogt, Guilt

German Civilians after an air-raid on Berlin
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VI. 4. The Cold War

• 13. Churchill, Iron Curtain.
• 14. Khrushchev, Report.
• 15. Kennan, Containing the USSR.
• 16. Spaak, NATO?

DIVIDED BERLIN
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VIII/8. Coming to Terms with the Holocaust

• 17. Weizsäcker, Plea
• 18. Wiesel, Reflections
• 19. Vatican, Remember