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The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe
The withdrawal of Soviet troops is a so far largely unresearched process of international political and military reorganization after 1989/90, which was accompanied by political, economic, social and geopolitical factors that had different effects in different nations. The anthology contains national studies that examine the withdrawal from a scientific perspective. But it also analyses the international conditions that led to the geopolitical reorganization and reduction of weapons. In addition to the country studies, the reforms and the collapse of the Soviet empire are examined from a military-political perspective in order to make the conditions for returning home understandable. Finally, the legacy of the retreat is also considered in the light of current policies and the current threats to the countries of East Central Europe from the increasing aggression in this geopolitical space.
The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe
The withdrawal of Soviet troops is a so far largely unresearched process of international political and military reorganization after 1989/90, which was accompanied by political, economic, social and geopolitical factors that had different effects in different nations. The anthology contains national studies that examine the withdrawal from a scientific perspective. But it also analyses the international conditions that led to the geopolitical reorganization and reduction of weapons. In addition to the country studies, the reforms and the collapse of the Soviet empire are examined from a military-political perspective in order to make the conditions for returning home understandable. Finally, the legacy of the retreat is also considered in the light of current policies and the current threats to the countries of East Central Europe from the increasing aggression in this geopolitical space.
The Eastern Front
The Second World War in Eastern Europe is far from a neglected topic, especially since social, cultural, and diplomatic historians have entered a field previously dominated by operational histories, and produced a cornucopia of new scholarship offering a more nuanced picture from both sides of the front. However, until now, the story has still been disjointed and specialized, whereby military, social, economic, and diplomatic histories continue to give their own separate accounts. This collection of essays attempts to bring these themes into a more cohesive whole that tells a complex, multifaceted story of war on the Eastern Front as it truly was. This is one of the few critical examinations...
From Incarceration to Repatriation
From Incarceration to Repatriation explores the lives and memories of the nearly 1.5 million German POWs who were held by the Soviet Union during and after World War II and released in phases through 1956, seven years longer than the prisoners of any other Allied nation. Susan C. I. Grunewald argues that Soviet leadership deliberately kept able-bodied German POWs to supplement their labor force after the end of the war. The Soviet Union lost 27 million citizens and a quarter of its physical assets during the war, motivating Soviet leadership to harness the labor of German POWs for as long as possible. Engaging with recently declassified documents in former Soviet archives, archival material ...
Homecomings
This book focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent an extended period in Soviet captivity. These former prisoners made up a unique segment of German society. They were both soldiers in the war of racial annihilation on the Eastern front and then suffered extensive hardship and deprivation themselves as prisoners of war. The book examines the lingering consequences of the soldiers' return and explores returnees' own responses to a radically changed and divided homeland. Historian Frank Biess traces the origins of the postwar period to the last year...
Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany
Examines how all four Allied powers interned alleged Nazis without trial in camps only recently liberated from Nazi control.
Empire of Destruction
The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing – showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Empire of Destruction considers Europe’s Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany’s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. Combining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror, this is a vital and groundbreaking work.
Transitions from Nazism to Socialism
This study examines transitions from Nazism to socialism in Brandenburg between 1945 and 1952. It explores the grassroots responses and their relative implications within the context of both punitive and rehabilitative measures implemented by the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) and the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). The doctoral study is based on archival and oral history sources and addresses two main research questions: First, in what ways did people at the grassroots attempt to challenge the imposition of punitive measures, and did their responses have any effect on the manner in which these policies were implemented at a grassroots level? These punitive measures ...
Die andere Hälfte der Erinnerung
Der Umgang mit der DDR ist bis heute oft von Konflikten, Mythen und Zerrbildern geprägt. Diese materialreiche Studie zeichnet detailliert die Verflechtungen von politischen und organisatorisch-finanziellen Interessen in der Gedenkstättenarbeit zur DDR-Vergangenheit nach und zeigt, dass die »Aufarbeitung« bisher letztlich von totalitarismustheoretischen Lesarten der DDR dominiert war. Auch wird bewiesen, dass die »Friedliche Revolution« von 1989 in Bezug auf das Ende der Stasi nicht so stattgefunden hat, wie es Geschichtsdarstellungen behaupten. Ein Buch, das grundlegende Ergebnisse zur Geschichts- und Erinnerungspolitik der letzten 20 Jahre beisteuert und auf diese Weise einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Verständnis der DDR-Erinnerungskultur seit 1989 liefert.
Ddr
Auf deutschem Boden befand sich für mehr als 40 Jahre nicht nur die Nahtstelle zwischen Ost und West, sondern auch das Spielfeld für zwei Mannschaften - die westliche Demokratie und die sozialistische Diktatur des Proletariats, vertreten durch die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Deutsche Demokratische Republik bzw. deren Vorläufer - die entsprechenden Besatzungszonen. Die eine Mannschaft wähnte sich auf dem Weg ins Paradies auf Erden und gab den Kampf auf diesem Weg auf. Die Gründe dieses Aufgebens werden vermutlich noch Forschergenerationen beschäftigen.Der Zusammenbruch des bürokratischen Sozialismus hat langfristige Ursachen, die in ihrem Zusammenwirken in dem vorliegenden Samme...
