After Auschwitz : the difficult legacies of the GDR /

From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the GDR's legacy cannot b...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heitzer, Enrico, 1977- (Editor ), Kahane, Anetta, 1954- (Editor ), Jander, Martin (Editor ), Poutrus, Patrice G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2021.
Temas:
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Politics and government
Germany (East) > Politics and government.
Germany (East) > History.
Allemagne (Est) > Politique et gouvernement.
Allemagne (Est) > Histoire.
Germany (East)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • After Auschwitz
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • New Perspectives on the GDR: A Plea for a Paradigm Shift
  • Part I
  • German Democratic Republic
  • Chapter 1
  • The Loyalty Trap: Wolfgang Steinitz and the Generation of GDR-Founding Fathers and Mothers
  • Chapter 2
  • The Effects of a Taboo: Jews and Antisemitism in the GDR
  • Chapter 3
  • Divided City-Shared Memory? Dealing with the Nazi Past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961
  • Chapter 4
  • The GDR and Opposition from the Right: A Plea for Broader Perspectives
  • Chapter 5
  • The GDR's Judgment against Hans Globke: On the Conviction of the Nazi Lawyer and Head of the Federal Chancellery under Konrad Adenauer by the Supreme Court of the GDR in the Summer of 1963
  • Chapter 6
  • Might through Morality? Some Comments on Antifascism in the GDR
  • Chapter 7
  • Toward a Sociology of Intelligence Agents: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Service as an Example
  • Chapter 8
  • At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s
  • Chapter 9
  • Holocaust Lite? Fiction in Works by Christa Wolf and Fred Wander
  • Chapter 10
  • The Stigma of "Asociality" in the GDR: Reconstructing the Language of Marginalization
  • Chapter 11
  • Lesbians and Gays in the GDR: Self-Organizing, Politics of Remembrance, Discrimination, and Public Silencing
  • Chapter 12
  • Have We Learned the "Right" Lessons from History? Antigypsyism and How the GDR Dealt with Sinti and Roma
  • Chapter 13
  • The GDR People's Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990: Ending the "Universalization" of the Holocaust
  • Part II
  • Federal Republic of Germany
  • Chapter 14
  • Understanding Silence: On an Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really Unknown
  • Chapter 15
  • "A Reassessment of European History?" Developments, Trends, and Problems of a Culture of Remembrance of Europe
  • Chapter 16
  • Analogies and Imblanaces: The Effects of Memorial Site Policies on Dealing with Places from the GDR Past on NS Reappraisal
  • Chapter 17
  • From the Ideological Repudiation of Culpability to Ethnocentric Propaganda
  • Chapter 18
  • The Book and the Audience: Comments on the Reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in Germany
  • Chapter 19
  • Another Past That Lives On: My Trying Journey from Contemporary Witness to Contemporary Historian
  • Chapter 20
  • Nonconformity in a German Postwar Society: Questions for GDR and Transformation Studies
  • Chapter 21
  • Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin
  • Index

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