Suppressed Terror: History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany
Bettina Greiner, "Suppressed Terror: History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany "
English | ISBN: 0739177435 | 2014 | 418 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0739177435 | 2014 | 418 pages | PDF | 2 MB
At the end of World War II, the Soviet secret police installed ten special camps in the Soviet occupation zone, later to become the German Democratic Republik. Between 1945 and 1950, roughly 154,000 Germans were held incommunicado in these camps. Whether those accused of being Nazis, spies, or terrorists were indeed guilty as charged, they were indiscriminately imprisoned as security threats and denied due process of the law. One third of the captives did not survive. To this day, most Germans have no knowledge of this postwar Stalinist persecution, even though it exemplifies in a unique way the entangled history of Germans as perpetrators and victims.
How can one write the history of victims in a “society of perpetrators?” This is only one of the questions
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