'Gutes Klassenbewusstsein, Parteiverbundenheit und Prinzipienfestigkeit': SED-Sekretäre mit NSDAP-Vergangenheit in Thüringen
| Autor: | Meenzen, Sandra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Politikwissenschaft
Geschichte History Political science allgemeine Geschichte politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture General History apparatus of domination party Thuringia coming to terms with the past membership German Democratic Republic (GDR) power opportunism GDR research historical analysis Federal Republic of Germany elite research integration policy political elite denazification Socialist Unity Party of Germany (GDR) National Socialist German Workers' Party elite inventory communism party secretary biography Bundesrepublik Deutschland SED Elite politische Elite Entnazifizierung Partei Mitgliedschaft Biographie NSDAP Eliteforschung Bestandsaufnahme Thüringen historische Analyse DDR-Forschung Macht Parteisekretär Herrschaftsapparat DDR Vergangenheitsbewältigung Opportunismus Kommunismus Integrationspolitik empirisch empirisch-quantitativ historisch historical empirical quantitative empirical |
| Zdroj: | Historical Social Research, 35, 3, 47-78 |
| Druh dokumentu: | journal article<br />Zeitschriftenartikel |
| ISSN: | 0172-6404 |
| DOI: | 10.12759/hsr.35.2010.3.47-78 |
| Popis: | "The First and Second Secretaries of the District and County Councils of the East German Communist Party (SED) were the provincial vicegerents of the regime and, thus, belonged to the most powerful exponents of the socialist society. As files from the Berlin Document Center prove, a considerable share of secretaries from counties that nowadays form the German State of Thuringia had been members of the NSDAP before 1945. However, this information is not confirmed by SED party records, foremost of which are the handwritten CVs in secretaries' cadre files. Although an 'automatic' or 'unconscious' 1944 NSDAP enlistment of youngsters has been a common interpretation among historians, new indications raise the questions to what extent the SED deliberately invited young careerists who had a tainted biography and whether or not a mutual agreement of silence and record forgery was made. At least one secretary (who later even became a GDR minister) admitted that he had joined the NSDAP and noted it in his post-1990 memoirs. Most remarkably, the autobiographical writings also refer to an early confession - absolution was received from a merited and elder Communist. It can be argued that the case was not a singularity." (author's abstract) |
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