"After the fall of the Berlin Wall, numerous
research projects were devoted to better
understanding the organization of political, social,
economic and cultural life in totalitarian regimes.
In the German-speaking area, the reflection has
often been conducted through a more or less
close comparison of the National Socialist and
the East German Socialist states. In the first part
of the issue I discuss the potential and limits of
this juxtaposition. In the second part I propose
a close reading of Bertolt Brecht’s paper “Fünf
Schwierigkeiten beim Schreiben der Wahrheit”."
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