West Germany and the Iron Drape, Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands

West Germany and the Iron Drape takes a fresh appearance at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification procedure from the spatial point of view of the West German borderlands that emerged along the unstable inter-German border after 1945.

These border areas made up the Federal Republic’s a lot of delicate geographical area where it needed to face partition and engage its socialist next-door neighbor East Germany in concrete methods. Each concern that emerged in these borderlands – from financial shortages, border tourist, ecological contamination, landscape modification, and the siting choice for a significant nuclear center – was amplified and moderated by the existence of what ended up being the most militarized border of its day, the Iron Drape.

In topical chapters, the book attends to the financial repercussions of the border for West Germany, which specified the border areas as depressed locations, and takes a look at the cultural practice of western tourist to the Iron Drape.

At the heart of this deeply-researched book stands an ecological history of the Iron Drape that checks out transboundary contamination, landscape modification, and a prepared nuclear commercial website at Gorleben that was suggested to bring tasks into the depressed border areas.

The book traces these topics throughout the caesura of 1989/90, consequently incorporating the “long” postwar period with the post-unification years. As Eckert shows, the borderlands that emerged with partition and vanished with reunification did not simply mirror some bigger advancements in the Federal Republic’s history however in fact assisted to form them.

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