UCSB Hist 133C, L 10:
West Germany in the 1950s: 2 more Rs
by Prof. Marcuse, Jan. 28, 2004

• Continuities (East) and West:
• East: Ulbricht & "totalitarianism"
• Adenauer Era:
  example: Remilitarization
  (also, but won't discuss today: Renazification)
• Discussion of Billiards at Half-Past Nine

Continuities in the East

• Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973)
  • SPD, WWI, KPD in 1919
  • 1933 France, 1938 Soviet Union
• "totalitarianism": putting the state first

The West: 2 more Rs

• Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)
• "Adenauer Era"
• Sept 15, 49: became chancellor with margin of 1 vote 202/402 votes
• "I'd rather have half of Germany all the way, than all of Germany only half-way."

	Adenauer: "I am proud, never in my life to have been a soldier"
On Sept. 21, 1949 Adenauer introduced his cabinet to the Allied High Commissioners. To show distance, only they were supposed to stand on the "red" carpet, but Adenauer symbolically stepped onto a corner of it to symbolize West Germany's will to enter the Western alliance.	This quotation was used by opponents of Adenauer's policy of rearmament/remilitarization

Eisenhower's July 1953 letter

• Economic factors
• International factors (diplomacy, intervention)
• Elites (behavior of groups w/ special access to power)
• Ideology/Information/Media: perception of the world
• "Opposition": people, human agents
• "background" of culture and institutions

Question 4

• Who was Nettlinger, and what did he do?
  • Who was he in the Nazi era?
  • Who is he in 1958?
• Name two important things that he did:
  for/to Robert, Edith & Alfred Schrella
  or: what happened to him

Discussion of Billiards at Half-Past Nine (September 6, 1958)