GIS and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West GermanyWith the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative