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Speaking the Taboo
Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social ‘taboos’, as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig’s critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig’s texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between the state’s official presentation of life in the East and their own experience. Cooke argues that through their exploration of the ‘taboo’, i.e. that which is excluded from the state’s official discourse, Hilbig’s characters attempt to break through the banal rhetoric of the ruling elite in order to realise an authentic sense of self.
Churchill's Cold War
En dybtgående, veldokumenteret analyse af britisk udenrigspolitik i gennem de første 10 efterkrigsår, herunder bl. a. den engelsk-amerikansk-franske manøvre for at afværge Sovjetunionens bestræbelser for at genforene Tyskland.
Security Empire
A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted "enemies of communism" in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
Auftrag: Menschenraub
Auf offener Straße brutal überfallen, in vertrauter Umgebung betäubt und entführt oder durch perfide Täuschungen auf DDR-Gebiet gelockt und rechtswidrig festgehalten. Etwa 400 Menschen teilen ein Schicksal: Sie wurden in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren aus der Bundesrepublik und vor allem aus West-Berlin in die DDR verschleppt und dort inhaftiert. Viele kehrten erst nach Wochen, Monaten oder gar Jahren aus der DDR-Haft zurück. Manche verschwanden für immer. Verantwortlich für die Entführungsaktionen war in erster Linie das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), das anfangs unter Anleitung des sowjetischen Geheimdienstes agierte.Es ist ein unbekanntes Kapitel der deutschen Teilungsgeschichte. Auf Grundlage zahlreicher MfS-Akten und bundesdeutscher Unterlagen analysiert die Studie die Mechanismen und Funktion der Entführungspraxis des MfS. In Anlehnung an die Gewalt- und Täterforschung begibt sie sich auf die Spuren der Entführungsopfer und Entführer. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Opus Primum 2015!
United City, Divided Memories?
"Each topic is very thoroughly documented, weaving together historical information and current political debates surrounding memorial sites ... Highly valuable as a chronicle of the politics of memory. ... Recommended."---Choice, March 2009 --
After Hitler
After Hitler seeks to explain the breathtaking transformation of the Germans from the defeated National Socialist accomplices and Holocaust perpetrators of 1945 to the civilized, democratic, and prosperous people of today, living in a reunited country that plays a leading role in the integration of Europe.
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.
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 ...
The Human Rights Dictatorship
Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.
