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Crisis, Normalcy, Fantasy: Berlin and its Borders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2014

PAUL STEEGE
PAUL STEEGE*
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Paul Steege, Department of History, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova PA 19085-1699, USA; paul.steege@villanova.edu
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Contemporary European History , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , August 2014 , pp. 469 - 484
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