After Auschwitz : : The Difficult Legacies of the GDR /

After Auschwitz : : The Difficult Legacies of the GDR / / ed. by Enrico Heitzer, Patrice G. Poutrus, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane.

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 be und...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bewieser, Ingrid,
Blei, Daniela,
Borcke, Tobias von,
Bästlein, Klaus,
Classen, Christoph,
Hannemann, Raiko,
Heitzer, Enrico,
Herf, Jeffrey,
Jander, Martin,
Kahane, Anetta,
Kühling, Gerd,
Leidinger, Christiane,
Lenski, Katharina,
Leo, Annette,
Morsch, Günter,
Mueller, Agnes C.,
Müller-Enbergs, Helmut,
Poutrus, Patrice G.,
Radvan, Heike,
Rudnick, Carola S.,
Scheer, Regina,
HerausgeberIn:
Heitzer, Enrico,
Jander, Martin,
Kahane, Anetta,
Poutrus, Patrice G.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 in Europe
  • Chapter 16 Analogies and Imbalances: 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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