UCSB Hist 133C, L 12:
Separate Lives: The 1960s
by Prof. Marcuse, Feb. 2, 2004

How & when did the 2 countries diverge?

• Film clip, 22 mins.: W. Germany 1952-63
• West: 1950s stability, 1960s dissolution
• 1953-55 as "the Wall" for the West
• East: stability after 1961

1969 West German film

• 1952 Bonn treaty ended occupation statute
• 1952-53: Stalin's notes and Nuschke's visit
• 1955: NATO & Rearmament ("the W. wall")
• Adenauer in Moscow: release of POWs
• 1956-57: Saar Agreement, pension reform
• "Culture": luxury of rock & roll
• 1959 Godesberg: SPD & privatization
• Lack of real concern for Berlin Wall

Dissent in the West

• anti-nuclear movement (F-J Strauss)
• Spiegel Affair (Fulbrook, p. 197f)
  • Fall 1962 critique of W. Germany's defenses

1960s: Stability in the East

• 1945-49 "antifascist-democratic transformation"
• 1949-1961: building the foundations of socialism
• 1961-1970: development of a socialist society
• 1971-1984: maturation of socialist society