Divided Landscapes, Divided Peoples: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain Between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46683-1_9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-46683-1_9</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Divided Landscapes, Divided Peoples: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain Between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany
Original language description
Communist totalitarian countries in postwar Europe faced the same problem, with citizens who wished to leave the ‘paradise of working people by illegally crossing the border. The most dramatic situation emerged in Eastern Germany, where immigration in the period before erection of the Berlin Wall nearly emptied the country. Despite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, where all communist countries present abstained, the Iron Curtain started taking physical shape in the early 1950s. The military barriers that were erected marked thousands of kilometers of the border between the Eastern and Western block. In this volume, a study of a 10 km long section of the Czechoslovak and West German frontier is presented where well preserved traces of four developmental phases of barbed-wire fences and other obstacles were documented, as well as ruins of the Border Guards’ company base and other remains. An analysis of the contemporary garbage heaps provided an in-depth perspective on the everyday life of conscripted soldiers on the Cold War frontline (Chapter 9).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression
ISBN
978-3-030-46682-4
Number of pages of the result
28
Pages from-to
171-198
Number of pages of the book
241
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Switzerland
UT code for WoS chapter
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