Ariane D'Angelo

From a simple office to assist Chancellor Adenauer in his task of rehabilitating Germany in the world to a quasi-ministerial organization freed from the « Goebbels complex », the Office of Press and Information of the Federal Government gained in a decade considerable importance.

Associating theoretical reflexions and field research on contemporary history, young French and German scholars challenge the issues of sources, temporalities and the relation to the other social sciences.