After Auschwitz : the difficult legacies of the GDR

After Auschwitz : the difficult legacies of the GDR / edited by Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane, Patrice G. Poutrus

"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 ca...

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Other Authors:	Heitzer, Enrico (Editor) Jander, Martin (Editor) Kahane, Anetta (Editor) Poutrus, Patrice G. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English German
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2021]
Edition:	English language edition
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany (East) > Influence Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany (East) > Historiography Oświęcim (Poland) > History Germany (East) > Ethnic relations Germany (East) > History
Contents/pieces:	21 records

1. The GDR's people's chamber declaration of 12 April 1990 : ending the "universalization" of the Holocaust

2. Divided city - shared memory? : dealing with the Nazi past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961

3. At war with Israel : anti-zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s

4. The GDR's judgement 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 summ...

5. Nonconformity in a German postwar society : questions for GDR and transformations studies

6. Toward a sociology of intelligence agents : the GDR foreign intelligence service as an example

7. The effects of a taboo : Jews and antisemitism in the GDR

8. The GDR and opposition from the right : a plea for broader perspectives

9. "A reassessment of European history?" : developments, trends, and problems of a culture of remembrance in Europe$Günter Morsch

10. Analogies and imbalances : the effects of memorial site policies on dealing with places from the GDR past on NS reappraisal

11. Another past that lives on : my trying journey from contemporary witness to contemporary historian

12. Might through morality? : some comments on anti-fascism in the GDR

13. Have we learned the "right" lessons from history? : antigyspyism and the GDR's dealings with Sinti and Roma

14. The stigma of "asociality" in the GDR : reconstructing the language of marginalization

15. The book and the audience : comments on the reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in Germany

16. Monumental problems : freedom and unity come to Berlin

17. Holocaust lite? : fiction in works by Christa Wolf and Fred Wander

18. Understanding silence : an ongoing search for people, things, and connections not really unknown

19. From the ideological repudiation of culpability to ethnocentric propaganda

20. Lesbians and gays in the GDR : self-organizing, politics of remembrance, discrimination, and public silencing

21. The loyalty trap : Wolfgang Steinitz and the generation of GDR-founding fathers and mothers