Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Introduction. New Perspectives on the GDR A Plea for a Paradigm Shift 1
5. Part I German Democratic Republic
6. Chapter 1 The Loyalty Trap: Wolfgang Steinitz and the Generation of GDR-Founding Fathers and Mothers 19
7. Chapter 2 The Effects of a Taboo: Jews and Antisemitism in the GDR 32
8. Chapter 3 Divided City—Shared Memory? Dealing with the Nazi Past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961 41
9. Chapter 4 The GDR and Opposition from the Right: A Plea for Broader Perspectives 57
10. 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 74
11. Chapter 6 Might through Morality? Some Comments on Antifascism in the GDR 88
12. Chapter 7 Toward a Sociology of Intelligence Agents: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Service as an Example 100
13. Chapter 8 At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s 115
14. Chapter 9 Holocaust Lite? Fiction in Works by Christa Wolf and Fred Wander 138
15. Chapter 10 The Stigma of “Asociality” in the GDR: Reconstructing the Language of Marginalization 150
16. Chapter 11 Lesbians and Gays in the GDR: Self-Organizing, Politics of Remembrance, Discrimination, and Public Silencing 163
17. Chapter 12 Have We Learned the “Right” Lessons from History? Antigypsyism and How the GDR Dealt with Sinti and Roma 175
18. Chapter 13 The GDR People’s Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990: Ending the “Universalization” of the Holocaust 191
19. Part II Federal Republic of Germany
20. Chapter 14 Understanding Silence: On an Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really Unknown 209
21. Chapter 15 “A Reassessment of European History?” Developments, Trends, and Problems of a Culture of Remembrance in Europe 216
22. Chapter 16 Analogies and Imbalances: The Effects of Memorial Site Policies on Dealing with Places from the GDR Past on NS Reappraisal 233
23. Chapter 17 From the Ideological Repudiation of Culpability to Ethnocentric Propaganda 247
24. Chapter 18 The Book and the Audience: Comments on the Reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in Germany 259
25. Chapter 19 Another Past That Lives On: My Trying Journey from Contemporary Witness to Contemporary Historian 266
26. Chapter 20 Nonconformity in a German Postwar Society: Questions for GDR and Transformation Studies 281
27. Chapter 21 Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin 299
28. Index 311