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Notes Introduction 1. Richard Brett-Smith, Berlin ’45: The Grey City (London: Macmillan, 1966), 54. 2. Anke Pinkert, Film and Memory in East Germany (Bloomington: Indiana Uni- versity Press, 2008); Robert R. Shandley, Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001); Eric Rentschler, “The Place of Rubble in the Trümmerﬁlm,” in Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle (eds.), Ruins of Modernity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 418–39; Wilfried Wilms and William Rasch, German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). 3. Histories of the Aftermath: The Cultural Legacies of the Second World War in Europe, ed. Frank Biess and Robert Moeller (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010). 4. Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 1. 5. On this point, see the essays in Hell and Schönle (eds.), Ruins of Modernity, especially Andreas Huyssen, “Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity” and Todd Samuel Presner, “Hegel’s Philosophy of World History via Sebald’s Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the “New Space’ of Modernity,” pp. 17–28 and 193–211. 6. Dorothy Rowe, Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2003); Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007). 7. Paul Rutherford draws on Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993) in A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 9. 8. Deborah Ascher Barnstone, The Transparent State: Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany (New York: Routledge, 2005); Paul Betts, The Author- ity of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007); Greg Castillo, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010); György Péteri, “Nylon Curtain – Transnational and Transsystemic Tendencies in the Cultural Life of State-Socialist Russia and East-Central Europe,” Slavonica 10.2 (2004): 113–23. 9. Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007); Robert G. Moeller, Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Wolfgang Schivelbusch, In a Cold Crater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998); Paul Steege, 226 Notes 227 Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946–1949 (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 10. Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2006); Andreas Killen, Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006); Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870–1990, (Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 2000); Jennifer A. Jordan, Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond (Stanford, CA: Stanford Uni- versity Press, 2006); Mel Gordon, Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2000); Alexandra Richie, Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998); Curt Moreck, Führer durch das “lasterhafte” Berlin, (Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2001); Karen E. Till, The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005); Brian Ladd, The Ghosts of Berlin: Con- fronting German History in the Urban Landscape (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998). 11. Matt Houlbrook, “Towards a Historical Geography of Sexuality,” Journal of Urban History 4.2 (2001): 497–504; Frank Mort, Capital Affairs: London and the Making of Permissive Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010). 12. Robert Beachy, “The German Invention of Homosexuality,” Journal of Modern History 82.4 (December 2010): 801–38; Geoffrey Giles, “The Institutional- ization of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich,” in Robert Gellately and Nathan Stolzfus (eds.), Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany (Princeton Univer- sity Press, NJ: Princeton, 2001), 223–55; Annette F. Timm, The Politics of Fertility in 20th Century Berlin (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2010). 13. Greg Eghigian has done much to introduce Foucault’s notion of govern- mentality to East German history. See especially “Homo Munitus: The East German Observed,” in Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Pol- itics, ed. Paul Betts and Katherine Pence (Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Press, 2008) and “The Psychologization of the Socialist Self: East German Forensic Psychology and Its Deviants, 1945–1975,” German History 22 (2004): 181–205. 14. Mark Fenemore, Sex, Thugs, and Rock n’ Roll: Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2007); Thomas Lindenberger, “ ‘Asoziale Lebensweise.’ Herrschaftslegitimation, Sozialdisziplinierung und die Konstruktion eines “negativen Milieus’ in der SED-Diktatur,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 31 (April–June, 2005), 227–54; Uta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 15. Much work has been written on the supposed naturalness of the heterosex- ual couple as the basic building block of social citizenship, in the United States and elsewhere. See Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009); David T. Evans, Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities (London: Routledge, 1993); Jennifer V. Evans, “The Moral State: Men, Mining, and Masculinity in the Early GDR,” German History 23.3 (2005): 355–70. 16. On the liminal status of Cold War Berlin, see Steege, Black Market, Cold War. 228 Notes 17. Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900; Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991); David Patrick Frisby and Mike Featherstone, Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings (London: Sage Publications Ltd, 1998). 18. W. Byford-Jones, Berlin Twilight (London: Hutchinson, 1947), 46. 19. Gottfried Benn and Alfred Döblin are cited in Schivelbusch, In a Cold Crater, 12, 5; Isaac Deutscher, Reportagen Aus Nachkriegsdeutschland (Hamburg: Junius, 1980), 114; Manuel Gasser, Erinnerungen und Berichte (Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1981), 113; Stephen Spender, European Witness (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946), 235. 20. Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies; Elizabeth D. Heineman, “The Hour of the Women: Memories of Germany’s ‘Crisis Years’ and West German National Identity,” American Historical Review 101.2 (1996): 354–95; Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1997). 21. Svenja Golterman, Die Gesellschaft der Uberlebenden: Deutsche Kriegsheimkehrer und ihrer Gewalterfahrungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Munich: Deutsche Verlags- Anstalt, 2009). 22. Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900.; Walter Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1972); Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1996); Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing;Moreck,Führer durch das “lasterhafte” Berlin; Grosstadt-Dokumente; Hans Ostwald, Kultur- und Sittengeschichte Berlins (Berlin: Grunewald, H. Kelmm, 1924); Georg Simmel, Die Grossstadt: Vorträge und Aufsätze Zur Städteausstellung (Dresden: von Zahn & Jaensch, 1903). 23. Georg Simmel, “Soziologie des Raumes,” translated as “Sociology of Space” by Mark Ritter in Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings,ed.DavidFrisbyand Mike Featherstone (London: Sage Publications Ltd, 1998). 24. Rowe, Representing Berlin, 72. 25. Moreck, Führer durch das “lasterhafte” Berlin. 26. Edward Dickinson, The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Presss, 1996); Corey Ross, Media and the Making of Modern Germany: Mass Commu- nications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008); Gary Stark, Banned in Berlin: Literary Censor- ship in Imperial Germany, 1871–1918 (New York: Berghahn Press, 2009). 27. Frank Mort and Lynda Nead, Sexual Geographies (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1999), 6. 28. Phil Hubbard, Sex and the City: Geographies of Prostitution in the Urban West (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999); Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narra- tives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). 29. Steven Maynard. “Through a Hole in the Lavatory Wall: Homosexual Subcultures, Police Surveillance, and the Dialectics of Discovery, Toronto, 1890–1930,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 5.2 (October 1994): 207–42. 30. Hubbard, Sex and the City, 103. 31. David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography (New York: Routledge, 2001); Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (Oxford, UK and Notes 229 Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991); Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Mod- ern

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