After Auschwitz
Subtitle: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
Contributors: Kahane, Anetta; Jander, Martin; Poutrus, Patrice G.
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781789208535
Subjects: Politics and government; History; Politique et gouvernement; Histoire; HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: After Auschwitz; title: Contents; title: Illustrations; title: Introduction; title: New Perspectives on the GDR: A Plea for a Paradigm Shift; title: Part I; title: German Democratic Republic; title: Chapter 1; title: The Loyalty Trap: Wolfgang Steinitz and the Generation of GDR-Founding Fathers and Mothers; title: Chapter 2; title: The Effects of a Taboo: Jews and Antisemitism in the GDR; title: Chapter 3; title: Divided City-Shared Memory? Dealing with the Nazi Past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961; title: Chapter 4; title: The GDR and Opposition from the Right: A Plea for Broader Perspectives; title: Chapter 5; title: 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; title: Chapter 6; title: Might through Morality? Some Comments on Antifascism in the GDR; title: Chapter 7; title: Toward a Sociology of Intelligence Agents: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Service as an Example; title: Chapter 8; title: At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s; title: Chapter 9; title: Holocaust Lite? Fiction in Works by Christa Wolf and Fred Wander; title: Chapter 10; title: The Stigma of "Asociality" in the GDR: Reconstructing the Language of Marginalization; title: Chapter 11; title: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR: Self-Organizing, Politics of Remembrance, Discrimination, and Public Silencing; title: Chapter 12; title: Have We Learned the "Right" Lessons from History? Antigypsyism and How the GDR Dealt with Sinti and Roma; title: Chapter 13; title: The GDR People's Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990: Ending the "Universalization" of the Holocaust; title: Part II; title: Federal Republic of Germany; title: Chapter 14; title: Understanding Silence: On an Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really Unknown; title: Chapter 15; title: "A Reassessment of European History?" Developments, Trends, and Problems of a Culture of Remembrance of Europe; title: Chapter 16; title: Analogies and Imblanaces: The Effects of Memorial Site Policies on Dealing with Places from the GDR Past on NS Reappraisal; title: Chapter 17; title: From the Ideological Repudiation of Culpability to Ethnocentric Propaganda; title: Chapter 18; title: The Book and the Audience: Comments on the Reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in Germany; title: Chapter 19; title: Another Past That Lives On: My Trying Journey from Contemporary Witness to Contemporary Historian; title: Chapter 20; title: Nonconformity in a German Postwar Society: Questions for GDR and Transformation Studies; title: Chapter 21; title: Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin; title: Index