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Integration or exclusion: former national socialists in the GDR
Integration oder Ausgrenzung: ehemalige Nationalsozialisten in der DDR
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Abstract "Not only West Germany saw the social rehabilitation of former National Socialists after 1945, former NSDAP members were also integrated into the GDR society and into the echelons of its functional elites. The share of former National Socialists among the elites varies between societal sectors. Howe... mehr
"Not only West Germany saw the social rehabilitation of former National Socialists after 1945, former NSDAP members were also integrated into the GDR society and into the echelons of its functional elites. The share of former National Socialists among the elites varies between societal sectors. However, some of them even entered the ranks of the power elite. Due to the omnipresent myth of anti-fascism, disclosed brown shadows of the past could put careers at risk, but submissive loyalty to the young socialist state and its leadership could balance the scales. Keeping silent turned out a successful strategy in many cases: the general exculpation of the populace and the antifascist propaganda made serious checks rather inopportune for the Communist regime. For a differentiated evaluation of the ambivalent process of socialist denazification, it is vital to discuss its impact on social structure and to analyze the strategy of the Communist Party." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Elite; kollektives Gedächtnis; Nationalsozialismus; Entnazifizierung; Rehabilitierung; Erinnerung; Bestandsaufnahme; Integration; historische Analyse; DDR-Forschung; Mythos; Macht; DDR; Exklusion; Kommunismus; Antifaschismus; Nachkriegszeit
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
Methode
empirisch-qualitativ; anwendungsorientiert; Dokumentation; Evaluation; empirisch; historisch; empirisch-quantitativ
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 9-21
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 35 (2010) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.35.2010.3.9-21
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)