'Geistige Gefahr' und 'Immunisierung der Gesellschaft'

Up to the early 1960s, anticommunism was an important source of identity formation in the Bonn Republic. It aimed at consolidating the still-nascent West German democracy. Renowned historians discuss different governmental and social forms of anticommunism in the pan-German context.



Dierk Hoffmann, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin; Stefan Creuzberger, Universität Rostock.