Prof. Marcuse
Nov. 10, 1998
UCSB Hist 133C
GERMAN HISTORY SINCE 1945

Lecture 13: Prelude to the "Fall of the Wall"

1. Administrative / Announcements / Preliminary
   • Q3
   • policy on late papers and make-up questions
   • Term Paper assignment: 4 pages on the interaction of the personal and the political
     extra office hours THURSDAY after lecture
   • For Thursday (L 14): 1989 revolution; read Fulbrook 318-45 and reader #13
   • Next Tue. & Wed. (Nov. 17 & 18): "Nasty Girl" in Girvetz 1115, 7:00-8:40pm
2. US Presidential Speeches in Berlin: Themes and their relationship to the times
   • Kennedy, 1963
   • Nixon, 1969
   • Carter, 1978
   • Reagan, 1987
   • Clinton, 1994 [main speech on handout!]
3. Changing political culture(s) in the 1970s
   • Ulrike Meinhof's husband Klaus Rainer Röhl: pleasure-oriented but against consumer society
   • Alternative politics: from the APO to the Greens
     • rapid devolution of the APO in 1968
     • difficulties in mobilizing: terrorism vs. The Long March through the Institutions
     • issues of the 1970s
   • Brandt: Ostpolitik (Jan. 1970 "State of the Union")
4. East Germany
   • changes under Honecker (textbook pp. 214ff.)
     • central planning AND local flexibility
     • consumer goods
     • professionalization of bureaucracy
   • Successes and problems