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Reunification posed multiple challenges to the societies, economies, and polities of East and West Germany. On a political, legal, cultural and symbolic level, strategies needed to be found to incorporate the divided – and potentially divisive – past into a forward-looking historical narrative. This study locates the ‘border guard trials’ in the wider context of post-Socialist transitional justice in East Germany since 1989 and asks how they were historically framed by the complex history of German attempts of ‘Vergangenheitspolitik’ (Norbert Frei) with regard to Nazi crimes. Moreover, this dissertation examines how the criminal proceedings were ideologically shaped by Cold War confrontations, and how competing conceptions of illegality and state crime mirrored those ideological and historical contestations. In studying the political and societal echoes of these criminal trials, the study finally also contributes to a better understanding of fractured views on and memories of German re-unification in contemporary Germany.
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Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 266-286
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Dissertation University of Cambridge 2019
Language:
English
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Unrecht
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Transitional Justice
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Geschichte 1989-2005
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Deutsch-deutsche Grenze
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Grenzsoldat
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Tötung
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Flüchtling
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Strafjustiz
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Geschichte 1989-2005
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Hochschulschrift
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Grunwald, Henning 1975-
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