"A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance presents a series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi"--
A series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi.
Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Th?lmann (1886--1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Th?lmann was the most prominent left-wing politician in the country's 1932 election and ran third in the presiden…
Was ein "Broiler" ist oder was man unter einer "Datsche" versteht, weiß jeder. Aber was verbirgt sich hinter Begriffen wie Arbeiterkorrespondent, Passowmethode, Wurfrotationsflachkegel, Hockauf-Bewegung oder Präsent 20? Auch Wörter wie Auflage, Preisbildung, Angestellter und Jug…
After Auschwitz: the difficult legacies of the GDR
"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'…
After Auschwitz: the difficult legacies of the GDR
"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'…
After Auschwitz: the difficult legacies of the GDR
"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'…
After Auschwitz: the difficult legacies of the GDR
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…