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Book SynopsisNiemandsland is the untold story of the largest of the unoccupied enclaves that survived after Germany's invasion and occupation by allied forces in 1945. Sandwiched between American and Red Army lines, the 500,000 inhabitants overthrew the last vestiges of the Nazi regime and established a little antifascist republic in no-man's-land.
Trade Review'Niemandsland is a model of local political history writing, offers new views on older debates, and will be of interest to historians of the immediate postwar era in Germany and in Europe more generally as well as to scholars of the Cold War.' Monica Black, The Journal of Modern History
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The antifascist committees; 2. Conflict communities of the western Erzgebirge; 3. Into the abyss; 4. Taking power in Niemandsland; 5. Surviving in Niemandsland; 6. The politics of antifascist rule; 7. Antifascists and the wider population; 8. The politics of Soviet occupation; 9. Lessons of Niemandsland.
