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

“It is a combination of the expertise of academics and professional practitioners, enhanced by personal insights, that make this volume unique and especially intriguing.” • Israel Journal of Foreign AffairsPraise for the German edition:“The anthology unites interdisciplinary, multi-perspectival contributions … [and] invites a new reading of GDR history.” • Sehepunkte

• New Perspectives on the German Democratic Republic: A Plea for a Paradigm ShiftEnrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane, and Patrice G. PoutrusPart I: German Democratic RepublicChapter 1. The Loyalty Trap: Wolfgang Steinitz and the Generation of GDR–Founding Fathers and MothersAnette LeoChapter 2. The Effects of a Taboo: Jews and Antisemitism in the GDRAnetta KahaneChapter 3. Divided City – Shared Memory? Dealing with the Nazi Past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961Gerd KühlingChapter 4. The GDR and Opposition from the Right: A Plea for Broader PerspectivesEnrico HeitzerChapter 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 1963Klaus BästleinChapter 6. Might Through Morality? Some Comments on Antifascism in the GDRChristoph ClassenChapter 7. Toward a Sociology of Intelligence Agents: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Service as an ExampleHelmut Müller EnbergsChapter 8. At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980sJeffrey HerfChapter 9. Holocaust Lite? Fiction in Works by Christa Wolf and Fred WanderAgnes MuellerChapter 10. The Stigma of “Asociality” in the GDR: Reconstructing the Language of MarginalizationKatharina LenskiChapter 11. Lesbians and Gays in the German Democratic Republic: Self-Organizing, Politics of Remembrance, Discrimination, and Public SilencingChristiane Leidinger and Heike RadvanChapter 12. Have We Learned the “Right” Lessons from History? Antiziganism and the GDR’s Dealings with Sinti and RomaIngrid Bettwieser and Tobias von BorckeChapter 13. The GDR People’s Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990: Ending the “Universalization” of the HolocaustMartin JanderPart II: Federal Republic of GermanyChapter 14. Understanding Silence: An Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really UnknownRegina ScheerChapter 15. “A Reassessment of European History?” Developments, Trends, and Problems of a Culture of Remembrance in EuropeGünter MorschChapter 16. Analogies and Imbalances: The Effects of Memorial Site Policies on Dealing with Places from the GDR Past on NS ReappraisalCarola RudnickChapter 17. From the Ideological Repudiation of Culpability to Ethnocentric PropagandaAnetta KahaneChapter 18. The Book and the Audience: Comments on the Reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in GermanyJeffrey HerfChapter 19. Another Past that Lives On: My Trying Journey from Contemporary Witness to Contemporary HistorianPatrice PoutrusChapter 20. Nonconformity in a German Postwar Society: Questions for GDR and Transformation StudiesRaiko HannemannChapter 21. Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to BerlinDaniela Blei