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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greiner, Bettina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
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.