| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Kalter Krieg und Propaganda: Die USA, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung, und die ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945–1955 (The Cold War and propaganda: The USA, the struggle over world opinion, and the idealistic Western orientation of West Germany, 1945–1955). By Frank Schumacher. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher, 2000. 332 pp. Paper, DM 64.50, ISBN 3-88476-344-X.) In German.

The East-West conflict sparked not only a nuclear arms race but a veritable war of ideas—a battle for "hearts and minds" in the global ideological conflict between Communism and "Americanism." The young German historian Frank Schumacher adds to the growing field of Cold War psychological warfare with his case study of U.S. propaganda in postwar Germany. Walter L. Hixson has argued that "undermining communism carried a higher priority than promoting democracy" (Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945–1961, 1997, p. 122). Contrary to that view, Schumacher sees the dual containment of both the Soviet Union and Germany along with the democratization of West Germany as a complementary U.S. national security strategy (p. 26).

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