Juliane Röleke (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam) : ‘Little Belfast in Westphalia? British close quarter battle facilities in West Germany during the Troubles’

The lecture gives an overview over the history of ‘Tin City’ in Sennelager, deals with West German perspectives on the conflict in Northern Ireland and focuses on the question in how far a transnational history of the Troubles might enrich their understanding.  It is part of a broader PhD project titled “Don’t you know there is a war going on?” Northern Ireland and the Federal Republic of Germany: A transnational history of conflict 1968-1998. 

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