After Auschwitz

The Difficult Legacies of the GDR

Enrico Heitzer, Anetta Kahane, Martin Jander, Patrice G. Poutrus (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-321-4 (ISBN)

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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 understood in isolation from the Nazi era nor the political upheavals of today. This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.

Enrico Heitzer is a research assistant at the Sachsenhausen Museum and Memorial / Brandenburg Memorials Foundation

New Perspectives on the German Democratic Republic: A Plea for a Paradigm Shift

Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane, and Patrice G. Poutrus

Part I: German Democratic Republic

Chapter 1. The Loyalty Trap: Wolfgang Steinitz and the Generation of GDR–Founding Fathers and Mothers

Anette Leo

Chapter 2. The Effects of a Taboo: Jews and Antisemitism in the GDR

Anetta Kahane

Chapter 3. Divided City – Shared Memory? Dealing with the Nazi Past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961

Gerd Kühling

Chapter 4. The GDR and Opposition from the Right: A Plea for Broader Perspectives

Enrico Heitzer

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 GDR’s Supreme Court in the Summer of 1963

Klaus Bästlein

Chapter 6. Might Through Morality? Some Comments on Antifascism in the GDR

Christoph Classen

Chapter 7. Toward a Sociology of Intelligence Agents: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Service as an Example

Helmut Müller Enbergs

Chapter 8. At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s

Jeffrey Herf

Chapter 9. Holocaust Lite? Fiction in Works by Christa Wolf and Fred Wander

Agnes Mueller

Chapter 10. The Stigma of “Asociality” in the GDR: Reconstructing the Language of Marginalization

Katharina Lenski

Chapter 11. Lesbians and Gays in the German Democratic Republic: Self-Organizing, Politics of Remembrance, Discrimination, and Public Silencing

Christiane Leidinger and Heike Radvan

Chapter 12. Have We Learned the “Right” Lessons from History? Antiziganism and the GDR’s Dealings with Sinti and Roma

Ingrid Bettwieser and Tobias von Borcke

Chapter 13. The GDR People’s Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990: Ending the “Universalization” of the Holocaust

Martin Jander

Part II: Federal Republic of Germany

Chapter 14. Understanding Silence: An Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really Unknown

Regina Scheer

Chapter 15. “A Reassessment of European History?” Developments, Trends, and Problems of a Culture of Remembrance in Europe

Günter Morsch

Chapter 16. Analogies and Imbalances: The Effects of Memorial Site Policies on Dealing with Places from the GDR Past on NS Reappraisal

Carola Rudnick

Chapter 17. From the Ideological Repudiation of Culpability to Ethnocentric Propaganda

Anetta Kahane

Chapter 18. The Book and the Audience: Comments on the Reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in Germany

Jeffrey Herf

Chapter 19. Another Past that Lives On: My Trying Journey from Contemporary Witness to Contemporary Historian

Patrice Poutrus

Chapter 20. Nonconformity in a German Postwar Society: Questions for GDR and Transformation Studies

Raiko Hannemann

Chapter 21. Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin

Daniela Blei

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-321-9 / 1805393219
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-321-4 / 9781805393214
Zustand	Neuware