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“[For black soldiers], but especially those out of the South, Germany was a breath of freedom. [They could] go where they wanted, eat where they wanted, and date whom they wanted, just like other people.”

Colin Powell about his tour of duty in West Germany in 1958, from My American Journey (1995)

 




NEWS:

GHI Receives 2010 Partner Award of the Humanities Council
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Maria Höhn Wins DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Article in the German Studies Review

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Photography Exhibition
Germany:

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut German American Institute
Tübingen
October 1 - November 26, 2010

USA:

University of California, Berkeley, CA
October 7 - November 7, 2010


A Breath of Freedom
By Maria Höhn &
Martin Klimke
Forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan Fall 2010
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House Resolution Recognizing the Difficult Challenges and Heroism of Black Veterans

February 24, 2010
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Marvin Gilmore Honored for WW II Military Service

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Boston Globe article


Vernon Baker, Belated Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 90
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This section offers detailed information on the aims and people involved in this research and digitization effort on both sides of the Atlantic.

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