Das Kuratorium Unteilbares Deutschland

Kreuz, Leo

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-93717-9

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“…From 1949, the policy of ‘roll-back’/‘liberation’ also became the official position of the newly formed Federal Republic, and of its Bundesministerium für gesamtdeutsche Fragen (Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, or BMG). This ministry took over funding of the UfJ from the United States in 1950, and also funded (and in some cases instigated) numerous further anti-communist initiatives designed to maintain Germans’ sense of national unity and undermine the SED regime in the East (Friedel, 2001: 49; Kreuz, 1980: 21). Anti-communism was a common denominator of political culture in the early Federal Republic (Major, 1997: 258), and the three major West German political parties ran Ostbüros (Eastern Offices), which similarly sought to support those who rejected the domination of the SED in the GDR, encouraging a spirit of resistance to a regime which, at the beginning of the 1950s, none of them expected to last long (Buschfort, 2000: 62).…”

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Constructing victimhood in divided Germany: The case of the Association of the Victims of Stalinism (1950–1989)

Clarke

2017

Memory Studies

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Taking the Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus (Association of the Victims of Stalinism) as a case study, this article argues that civil society organisations which claim to represent the interests of victims of historical injustice must seek to construct and propagate notions of the political and social relevance of victimhood. They must do so in such a way that victimhood both offers a coherent point of identification for individual victims and speaks to the concerns of the political system on which victims rely for compensation and recognition. By examining the discourse of officials of this organisation over time, it is possible to demonstrate the extent to which victims' representatives must adapt their conception of victimhood in order to respond to changing circumstances. The article also points to the challenges these organisations face in remaining relevant in the new political contexts.

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confidence: 99%