Abstract

abstract:

Near the end of World War II, a US occupation detachment reached Hof County at Bavaria’s northern edge in April 1945. Over the following year, the unit faced myriad, often rampant problems in this part of defeated Germany. Within this chaotic context, tensions between West and East manifested themselves only months after Allied occupation began, in the days after the July 1945 creation of the border between the Soviet and US zones along Hof’s northern frontier. The unit’s records quickly evinced a clear anticommunism. By mid-1946, the situation remained uncertain as Hof County began to develop as the frontline in the emergent Cold War.

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