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The Hopes and Fears of West Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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If one mentions to German friends that we in America have taken the successfully running film. Rosemary, as a true—and disturbing—picture of their “fabulous fifties,” they only smile and answer that the film tells about Frankfurt and that Frankfurt is not Germany. In fact, they point to this old city, Goethe's birthplace, as a “little America,” not only because of the obvious presence of G.I.'s, but primarily because its population has adopted something similar to the American way of life amidst a new architectural setting they describe as “American style.”

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1960

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