Suppressed terror : history and perception of Soviet special camps in Germany /
"After World War II, 154,000 Germans were arrested by the Soviet secret police and held incommunicado in so-called special camps in the Soviet occupation zone. One third of the inmates did not survive captivity. Based on Russian and German sources, Displaced Terror : History and Perception of S...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2014]
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Colección: | Harvard Cold War studies book series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the English edition
- 1. Introduction
- The camp system
- Internees and SMT prisoners
- Explorations
- Detention measures
- Detention experiences
- Detention memories
- 2. Detention measures
- Internments
- "Mobilization" and "cleansing the rear area" between December 1944 and April 1945
- The NKVD order no. 00315 or the end of "mobilization"
- The primacy of the pacification policy
- Isolation as "political prophylaxis"
- Soviet military tribunals (SMTs)
- The work of the SMTs
- Functional changes in the camp system
- The logic of judicial terror
- Judicial prosecution of "class enemies"
- "Political purges" and the struggle against "deviationists"
- Russian roulette
- 3. Detention experiences
- Arrest
- Dawn raids
- Denounced
- In shock
- In the "GPU cellars"
- Detention conditions
- Interrogations
- Traitors
- Verdicts
- In Special Camp No. 7/No. 1 Sachsenhausen
- Parallel worlds : "politicals" and "criminals"
- The divided camp community
- Daily life in the Sachsenhausen Special Camp
- Fragments
- 4. Detention memoirs
- Freedom
- The closure of the special camps, 1950
- The combat group against inhumanity
- The price of recognition
- "Empty" memory sites
- "Second-class victims" or self-imposed isolation
- A last attempt : the Publication Offensive after 1989-1990
- "Gray" literature
- The dependency trap
- "Documentarism" as narrative style
- "Alternate framings" and other "narrative templates"
- Self-devised traps : memoirs after 1989
- 5. The special camps and their place in history
- Internment camps
- The POW camps of the GUPVI
- The Soviet gulag
- National socialist camps
- Index of names
- Subject index.