"Traces the afterlives of things. Natalie Scholz shows that West Germany s consumerist ideology took shape through the reinvention of commodities previously tied to Nazism into symbols of Germany s modernity, economic supremacy, and international prestige."

Consuming Germany in the Cold War : consumption and national identity in East and West Germany, 1949-1989, an introduction / David F. Crew -- "A world in miniature" : the Leipzig Trade Fairs in the 1950s and East German consumer citizenship / Katharine Pence -- On the seam between socialism and...