@article{807284,
      recid = {807284},
      author = {Nathans, Eli.},
      title = {Peter von Zahn's Cold War broadcasts to West Germany :  assessing America /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (343 pages).},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {This book examines the pioneering radio broadcasts and  television documentaries about the United States made in  the 1950s by the influential West German journalist Peter  von Zahn. Part intellectual biography, part analysis of  significant debates in West Germany, part study of an  intensive encounter with the United States, the book helps  explain the transformation of postwar West Germany. As a  soldier in the Wehrmacht in World War II, Zahn held the  militantly elitist views typical of young men in Germany's  educated middle class. He reconsidered these positions in  his postwar broadcasts. At the same time he coldly assessed  the capacity of the United States to win the Cold War. His  broadcasts examined McCarthyism, the African-American civil  rights movement, and numerous aspects of American culture  and politics. Zahn's broadcasts were one important voice in  West German debates about the defects and virtues of modern  democratic societies and especially of the United States,  debates whose intensity reflected recent German experiences  with the failure of the Weimar Republic and with Nazism.  Zahn's analyses of the United States remain startlingly  relevant today.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/807284},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50615-9},
}