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Fragmented Fatherland : Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1980

Extensive primary sources: this book emerges out of eight years of research using an extensive range of previously untouched primary sources from immigrant political groups, and German federal and provincial state archives.

Critical argument: the material is used to examine in detail interactions between immigrant networks and West German state and political institutions. Five substantial chapters offer a complex picture of changing patterns of inter-communal cooperation and conflict that exceeds the purview of one or more articles, and mounts a substantial challenge to established approaches by showing how the social consequences of immigration became intertwined with Cold War ideological battles.