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Unter Beobachtung | Under Surveillance

Vertriebenenverbände im Blick der sozialistischen Sicherheitsdienste | The Monitoring of Expellee Organizations by the Socialist Security Services
  • Edited by: Stefan Lehr
Languages: German, English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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The socialist states of Eastern Europe closely and suspiciously observed the expellee organizations that had emerged in the Federal Republic since the late 1940s, including their political activities. This volume, for the first time, takes a look at this ‘enemy and foreign observation’ by the intelligence services, using various case studies from the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. It examines what the secret services knew about the expellee functionaries and their past, and asks what information was collected and how it was used. In addition, the role of the Germans who remained in the socialist states and the Aussiedler, who came to the FRG and formed a link between the expellees and their ‘old homeland’, is examined. The volume thus makes an important contribution to research on the perception of the expellee organizations in the socialist states, on the work of the security services, and on bilateral contacts during the ‘Cold War’.

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Stefan Lehr, Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (BKGE), Oldenburg, Germany.

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"ein bedeutender Beitrag zu den deutschen Vertriebenenverbänden" – Martin Renghart, in: Bohemia 62 (2022), S. 128–130.

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"Wieder einmal ist dem noch jungen Journal ein überzeugender Wurf gelungen." Die Ausgabe sei eine „kompakte und eingängige Übersichtsdarstellung" zum Schwerpunktthema, die stellenweise auch mit "Pionierleistungen" aufwarte, die "wertvolle Impulse" böten und „gleich mehrere weiße Flecken getilgt" hätten. – Matthias E. Cichon, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 72 (2023), H. 4, S. 638–640


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Stefan Lehr
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DDR

Heike Amos
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POLEN

Sebastian Rosenbaum
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Paweł Migdalski
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Michał Turski
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TSCHECHOSLOWAKEI

Stefan Lehr
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Niklas Zimmermann
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Beáta Katrebová Blehová
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Michal Schvarc
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UNGARN

Ágnes Tóth
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Judit Klein
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RUMÄNIEN

William Totok
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Corneliu Pintilescu and Ottmar Trașcă
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Virgiliu Țârău
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JUGOSLAWIEN

Bernd Robionek
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eBook published on:
October 24, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110795288
Paperback published on:
October 24, 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9783110795226
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
244
Illustrations:
9
Coloured Illustrations:
3
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