Projektnummer

0063264

Zusammenfassung

This project has two aims: First, it examines the range of possible catastrophes that captivated East and West German imaginations during and after the Cold War. Second, it follows the efforts of governments, research networks, and NGOs in both the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic to hedge against these disasters. The project brings together an unlikely pairing of postwar narratives. It traces the creation of a massive underground archive of black-and-white microfilmed images of Germany's cultural treasures designed as insurance against the mass destruction of German...