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Title: Interview of retired Colonel Mary Ruth Pullig on her long career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
Creator: Pullig, Mary Ruth, 1919-2007
Date: 2003
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Retired Army Colonel Mary Ruth Pullig talks about growing up in Arkansas and Louisiana, her education and her long career as a U.S. Army nurse. After nursing school and working at various hospitals in the south, Pullig says that she joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1943, did her basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and was first assigned to Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver. She also talks about other Stateside assignments and says that she was finally sent overseas to New Guinea...
Show moreRetired Army Colonel Mary Ruth Pullig talks about growing up in Arkansas and Louisiana, her education and her long career as a U.S. Army nurse. After nursing school and working at various hospitals in the south, Pullig says that she joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1943, did her basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and was first assigned to Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver. She also talks about other Stateside assignments and says that she was finally sent overseas to New Guinea and and then to the Philippines and describes the living conditions at both posts, the poor diet, working under enemy fire, some of the patients she treated and nursing civilians suffering from collateral damage wounds. After the war, Pullig says that she was stationed in occupied Germany for a time and finally came back to the States and earned bachelors and masters degrees. She says she is thankful for being given the opportunity to travel and see the world and that the young men who fought were good men overall and that she enjoyed her experience with them and helping people as a nurse. Ruth Stewart interviews Pullig.
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Title: Turkish teachers and imams and the making of Turkish German difference
Creator: Van Wyck, Brian
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation investigates the intersections of education, Islam, and knowledge production in the history of postwar migration to West Germany. It focuses on how Germans and Turks grappled with the permanent presence of Turkish guest workers, refugees, and their families in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from the 1960s onward. To understand how ideas about this population of Turkish Germans shaped notions of race, culture, and belonging in both countries, two surprisingly under...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the intersections of education, Islam, and knowledge production in the history of postwar migration to West Germany. It focuses on how Germans and Turks grappled with the permanent presence of Turkish guest workers, refugees, and their families in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from the 1960s onward. To understand how ideas about this population of Turkish Germans shaped notions of race, culture, and belonging in both countries, two surprisingly under-researched groups are used as a lens: Turkish teachers and imams. Both were charged with seeing to the educational and spiritual needs of what was West Germany's largest immigrant population by 1973. As such, policies, practices, and debates surrounding the hiring, supervision, and activities of relatively small numbers of teachers and imams offer insight into what a broad spectrum of state and civil society stakeholders in both countries believed they knew about Turkish Germans, what differentiated them from the German majority or Turks in Turkey proper, and what interventions were made necessary by that difference. Teachers and imams were simultaneously actors producing knowledge about Turks in the FRG for audiences in both countries, agents tasked with carrying out interventions at the behest of various stakeholders on the basis of this knowledge, and, as Turkish Germans, were themselves subjects of this knowledge regime. As such, they reveal the complicated dynamics underlying why and how what was known about Turkish German difference changed over time. This in turn identifies shifts in ideas about the nation, race, and Islam in Turkey and Germany.Comparing teachers and imams and using sources in Turkish and German as diverse as theater, poetry, oral history, diplomatic correspondence, and the academic and popular press, this dissertation breaks with several common scholarly and popular assumptions. First, it demonstrates the contingency of the emergence in the 1980s of Islam as the most salient aspect of Turkish difference and an essential element of Turkish national identity, rather than a marker of membership in the broader, international "Muslim world." The project identifies the centrality of Islam to the racialization of Turkish difference and the role of Turkish expertise in this process of essentialization. Second, the comparison between teachers and imams highlights the contextual nature of the construction of this essential difference. Even as imams were positioned as experts with proprietary knowledge of Turkish Islam, Turkish teachers lost their privileged status and their cultural and linguistic knowledge was increasingly understood as backwards and irrelevant in the context of the universalistic German school. Thus, Turkish difference in German schools was perceived differently than when it was imagined in a mosque or Koran course. The dissertation offers an account of the development and implications of this interplay between belonging and exclusion, and knowledge and ignorance. This allows it to complicate previous literature which has located German policies and attitudes toward foreigners in the legacies of the Third Reich or in an unchanging and particularly German ethnoracial conception of the nation.
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Title: Unsettled Germans : the reception and resettlement of East German refugees in West Germany, 1949-1961
Creator: Limbach, Eric H.
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study focuses on the migration of East German refugees into West Berlin and West Germany between the establishment of the GDR and FRG in 1949 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, an influx that, over the course of twelve years, totaled more than three million individuals. While the newcomers were physically indistinguishable and, apart from a few regional differences, shared a common language, culture and religious background with those already residing in West Germany, the...
Show moreThis study focuses on the migration of East German refugees into West Berlin and West Germany between the establishment of the GDR and FRG in 1949 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, an influx that, over the course of twelve years, totaled more than three million individuals. While the newcomers were physically indistinguishable and, apart from a few regional differences, shared a common language, culture and religious background with those already residing in West Germany, the presence of these refugees, like that of many other groups of migrants, was still considered a significant danger to the public order — a perception that was deeply rooted in the historical context of migration in Germany. In response to the influx, the Federal Republic and West Berlin established a comprehensive registration process for refugees, which attempted to determine whether refugees had a valid reason for their flight, and set up temporary camps to accommodate those awaiting resettlement in West Germany. Longer-term solutions included the creation of new employment opportunities and the construction of adequate (and permanent) housing in West German cities. However, these efforts required the cooperation of organizations and agencies at several levels of government, and disagreements among the West German Länder, West Berlin, and the Federal Government had a significant impact on the reception process.The ongoing migration of refugees also created new areas of concern, in particular the perceived overcrowding of West Berlin and the shifting demographics in both East and West Germany. The West German Government invested heavily in the international effort to study, categorize and propose solutions to problems of migration in the postwar era, creating a network of researchers, bureaucrats and leading politicians that maintained a significant influence over government decisions. One particular concern shared by the government and public in West Germany was that uncontrolled migration of refugees from East to West Germany would have a negative impact on a future reunified German state. However, the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 effectively rendered these debates moot. Once the refugees ceased to arrive by the thousands, those remaining in West Berlin were quickly resettled and within a few years, issues of German refugee migration were no longer at the forefront of West German public discourse
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Title: An empirical investigation of Wirtschaftsprüfer independence
Creator: Dykxhoorn, Hans Jay
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The institutional impact on the distribution of the economic activities of Expellees in Hessen, Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1963
Creator: Palmer, Martha Ellen, 1938-
Date: 1967
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A Guttman facet analysis of attitudes toward the mentally retarded in the Federal Republic of Germany : content, structure and determinants
Creator: Harrelson, Lawrence Eugene, 1937-
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The Negroes of our nation" : ambiguities of antiracism in West Germany, 1974-1984
Creator: Woesthoff, Julia M.
Date: 1999
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Daughter-father relationships in the father memoirs of german-speaking women writers of the 1970s
Creator: Moffit, Gisela
Date: 1991
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: 14 jaar isolatie-folter in de BRD : sinds 4.12.84 zijn de gevangenen uit de RAF en het verzet in Hongerstaking! : zij eisen samenvoeging van alle revolutionaire gevangenen in grote groepen, afschaffing van de isolatie-folter, opheffing van het verbod o...
Date: 1984/198x
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows two side-by-side images in the center. The one to the left shows a group of masked, helmeted protestors dressed in black and carrying a banner that reads "Kampf der NATO-Kriegspolitik." Two other banners are in the back of that picture and the text is not clear except "Anti-NATO ..." The image to the right is the organizational logo for the "Red Army Faction" (popularly known as the "Baader Meinhoff gang"). The logo is a five-point red star with a black sub-machine gun across it...
Show morePoster shows two side-by-side images in the center. The one to the left shows a group of masked, helmeted protestors dressed in black and carrying a banner that reads "Kampf der NATO-Kriegspolitik." Two other banners are in the back of that picture and the text is not clear except "Anti-NATO ..." The image to the right is the organizational logo for the "Red Army Faction" (popularly known as the "Baader Meinhoff gang"). The logo is a five-point red star with a black sub-machine gun across it and the upper case letters RAF on top of the gun. The poster is an expression of sympathy for the Germans on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of isolation and torture they endured while incarcerated in West Germany. There is a list of demands that include: housing the prisoners together, the end of isolation and torture, and lifting the prohibition on communication. Ink is black and red.
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Title: Aufruf : gegen die Menschen vernichtenden Haftbedingungen in den deutschen Gefängnissen wir verlangen
Date: 1981
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows text in red ink describing prison conditions in West Germany for political prisoners and demanding reform. A red star is in the lower right corner. Border and text are red on a brown background.

Title: Freiheit für Micha und Benny : Freiheit und Glück für alle Gefangenen, schafft viele radikale Zeitungen, kämpft Freunde
Date: 1983
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a drawing of a young man in briefs with different areas of his body noted in short French phrases, possibly to facilitate torture. Inset shows head of a screaming man during apparent torture. This is a call for the release of Michael Klöckner and Benedikt Härlin, two German journalists arrested in 1983 under section 129a of the German criminal code. They were accused of supporting terrorist groups and publishing leftist ideologies. Lists addresses for Klöckner and Härlin as...
Show morePoster shows a drawing of a young man in briefs with different areas of his body noted in short French phrases, possibly to facilitate torture. Inset shows head of a screaming man during apparent torture. This is a call for the release of Michael Klöckner and Benedikt Härlin, two German journalists arrested in 1983 under section 129a of the German criminal code. They were accused of supporting terrorist groups and publishing leftist ideologies. Lists addresses for Klöckner and Härlin as well as information on how to make donations to their legal defense fund. Ink in blue and red.
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Title: RAF
Date: 1980/1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Black and white poster shows the image of a bombed-out car trunk to the left of which is the symbol of the Red Army Faction, a German terrorist group. The symbol has three elements: a star (usually red), a sub-machine gun on top of of it, and the uppercase letters RAF on top of the gun.

Title: Das letzte Wort wird nicht im Gerichtssaal gesprochen : Veranstaltung zum Ende des Prozesses gegen Fantasia/IVK in der Gaststätte, Friedenau, Stuttgart, Rotenbergstr. 127, am 11.3.80, 19:30 : zur Entwicklung im Prozess und seinem politischen Zusammenh...
Date: 1980
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a black and white image of fourteen men [and one woman?] surrounding the American flag (colorized red and blue) as it is desecrated. Ink is red, blue, and black.

Title: 1 de maig : trenouem les cadenes
Date: 1980/1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a black and white montage of about a dozen street protests in support of the Red Army Faction. Faces of seven RAF members appear at top right of poster. A large red star, symbolizing the group, appears in the center. Ink is black and red.

Title: Die Lügen der Baw werden immer offensichtlicher : wir wollen den Veruteilungswillen der Staats Schutzsenate brechen!
Date: 1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a fence with two hands prying it apart. On either side are two newspaper articles. Title is above image with remaining text below. A partial red star is at the top of the image and another partial red star is at the bottom. Ink is black and red.

Title: Aufruf
Date: 1973
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: This poster is a call to action by the Committees against the Torture of Political Prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany and the capital city of Berlin. Includes descriptions of various torture methods used in West Germany and West Berlin against prisoners believed to be active in anti-imperialist movements. It points out that these prisoners are not afforded that same human rights as other prisoners. It calls on people to try to visit political prisoners, to spread the word about...
Show moreThis poster is a call to action by the Committees against the Torture of Political Prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany and the capital city of Berlin. Includes descriptions of various torture methods used in West Germany and West Berlin against prisoners believed to be active in anti-imperialist movements. It points out that these prisoners are not afforded that same human rights as other prisoners. It calls on people to try to visit political prisoners, to spread the word about their circumstances and torture, and to work with the commitees to help stop the torture of political prisoners.
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Title: 2.10. Demo - AgitProp Aktion : Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 1996, AgitProp 11.30 Uhr, Demo 17.30 Uhr, Gänseliesel, Göttingen
Date: 1996
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Advertisement for a demonstration against capitalism and police states. Poster shows a masked protestor scuffling with a police officer holding a billy club. Printed across the officer's jacket is "BRD Kapitalismus." Below the protestor is a black circle with white in the center over which are printed images of a red flag and a white flag. On the black part of the outer circle is printed in white: Antifaschistische Aktion. The same emblem is on the front of the protestor's shirt. Ink is red,...
Show moreAdvertisement for a demonstration against capitalism and police states. Poster shows a masked protestor scuffling with a police officer holding a billy club. Printed across the officer's jacket is "BRD Kapitalismus." Below the protestor is a black circle with white in the center over which are printed images of a red flag and a white flag. On the black part of the outer circle is printed in white: Antifaschistische Aktion. The same emblem is on the front of the protestor's shirt. Ink is red, black, and yellow.
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Title: Kämpft mit uns : proletarische Aktion
Date: 1987
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a large red star (the symbol of the RAF) in the center with the image of co-founder Ulrike Meinhof superimposed. The star is surrounded by eight black and white images of destruction and political unrest. Appears to be a call to protest a meeting of the Federation of German Industries and a visit to Berlin by then President Ronald Reagan.

Title: RAF, quotes from George Jackson and Daniel Viglietti
Date: 1976
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows the insignia of the Red Army Faction (a red star with a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine across it and overlaid with the acronym RAF). Flanking the top point of the star are two probably, unidentified RAF members (a man and a woman). At the head of the poster is a quotation by former political activist George Jackson. He writes that he can only control how he lives not how long. On the lower half of the poster is a lengthy quotation signed "Daniel Viglietti, Chile" who speaks in...
Show morePoster shows the insignia of the Red Army Faction (a red star with a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine across it and overlaid with the acronym RAF). Flanking the top point of the star are two probably, unidentified RAF members (a man and a woman). At the head of the poster is a quotation by former political activist George Jackson. He writes that he can only control how he lives not how long. On the lower half of the poster is a lengthy quotation signed "Daniel Viglietti, Chile" who speaks in honor of fallen comrades as well as for those still living who take precise aim at their enemy. He warns of the uselessness of paper against bullets and songs against weapons. Poster in red, white and black.
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Title: Krieg dem imperialistischen Krieg : wir Chaoten haben eine lange Tradition
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows multiple images of armed fighting in unidentified places. Top left has a man with a flag marked [Freedom?]. Top right has "Imperialismus" surrounded by images of the Nazi swastika, the American flag, the German eagle, and a snarling German shepherd dog. Large central figure dressed in red is pointing at the viewer. Bottom has emblem of Antifaschistische Aktion (circle with outer black right and white center with two flags--one red, one black). Some smaller print is illegible. Ink...
Show morePoster shows multiple images of armed fighting in unidentified places. Top left has a man with a flag marked [Freedom?]. Top right has "Imperialismus" surrounded by images of the Nazi swastika, the American flag, the German eagle, and a snarling German shepherd dog. Large central figure dressed in red is pointing at the viewer. Bottom has emblem of Antifaschistische Aktion (circle with outer black right and white center with two flags--one red, one black). Some smaller print is illegible. Ink is red and black.
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