Americans and Germans:
Close Encounters
of the Crosscultural Kind

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About this work

The prologue...

Introduction

Section I.

Setting the Scenes: "Pre-encounter" Life in the Forties and Postwar Encounters of the Fifties

• Helene Blüm: A Child in War-torn Hamburg
• Ingeborg Brown: Housing Shortage in Hamburg
• Mary Schmidt: Military Wife on Her Own
• Nathan Barnett: Soldier with the Eye of a Writer

Section II.

Sojourning Encounters: Eight Days to Four Years in Another Culture

• Joseph Hutter: Impressions of a Sometime Tourist
• Donna Hudson: Six Months of Difficulty near Bonn
• Michael Schwarz: Lonely Au Pair in Arlington
• Amelia Bohne: Exchange Student in Oldenburg, the Best City in the World!
• Martin Lambsdorff: Those Fast-paced Americans
• Paul Masberg: A Baker Tells It All
• Keith Kyoto: An American Teenager in Southern Germany

Section III.

Deep Encounters: Impressions of Germans Who Stayed in the United States

• Sara Johnson: "I Like It Here"
• Martine Hoffmann-Johnston: "Who Are Americans Anyway?"
• Paul Meier: A Peace-loving Person Who Decided to Stay
• Ingeborg Brown: From Rainy Hamburg
• Monika Roubach: A German Marries a Frenchman Living in the U.S.

Addendum.

Southern German Polls

©1995 Lana Rings, The University of Texas at Arlington.