After Auschwitz

Enrico Heitzer is a research assistant at the Sachsenhausen Museum and Memorial / Brandenburg Memorials Foundation

New Perspectives on the German Democratic Republic: A Plea for a Paradigm Shift

Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane, and Patrice G. Poutrus



Part I: German Democratic Republic



Chapter 1. The Loyalty Trap: Wolfgang Steinitz and the Generation of GDR–Founding Fathers and Mothers

Anette Leo



Chapter 2. The Effects of a Taboo: Jews and Antisemitism in the GDR

Anetta Kahane



Chapter 3. Divided City – Shared Memory? Dealing with the Nazi Past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961

Gerd Kühling



Chapter 4. The GDR and Opposition from the Right: A Plea for Broader Perspectives

Enrico Heitzer



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 GDR’s Supreme Court in the Summer of 1963

Klaus Bästlein



Chapter 6. Might Through Morality? Some Comments on Antifascism in the GDR

Christoph Classen



Chapter 7. Toward a Sociology of Intelligence Agents: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Service as an Example

Helmut Müller Enbergs



Chapter 8. At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s

Jeffrey Herf



Chapter 9. Holocaust Lite? Fiction in Works by Christa Wolf and Fred Wander

Agnes Mueller



Chapter 10. The Stigma of “Asociality” in the GDR: Reconstructing the Language of Marginalization

Katharina Lenski



Chapter 11. Lesbians and Gays in the German Democratic Republic: Self-Organizing, Politics of Remembrance, Discrimination, and Public Silencing

Christiane Leidinger and Heike Radvan



Chapter 12. Have We Learned the “Right” Lessons from History? Antiziganism and the GDR’s Dealings with Sinti and Roma

Ingrid Bettwieser and Tobias von Borcke



Chapter 13. The GDR People’s Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990: Ending the “Universalization” of the Holocaust

Martin Jander



Part II: Federal Republic of Germany



Chapter 14. Understanding Silence: An Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really Unknown

Regina Scheer



Chapter 15. “A Reassessment of European History?” Developments, Trends, and Problems of a Culture of Remembrance in Europe

Günter Morsch



Chapter 16. Analogies and Imbalances: The Effects of Memorial Site Policies on Dealing with Places from the GDR Past on NS Reappraisal

Carola Rudnick



Chapter 17. From the Ideological Repudiation of Culpability to Ethnocentric Propaganda

Anetta Kahane



Chapter 18. The Book and the Audience: Comments on the Reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in Germany

Jeffrey Herf



Chapter 19. Another Past that Lives On: My Trying Journey from Contemporary Witness to Contemporary Historian

Patrice Poutrus



Chapter 20. Nonconformity in a German Postwar Society: Questions for GDR and Transformation Studies

Raiko Hannemann



Chapter 21. Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin

Daniela Blei