GERMAN

Unter Beobachtung | Under Surveillance: Vertriebenenverbände im Blick der sozialistischen Sicherheitsdienste | The Monitoring of Expellee Organizations by the Socialist Security Services

By Stefan Lehr (editor)

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year
2022
ISBN
9783110795288, 9783110795226
DOI
10.1515/9783110795288
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5740668 bytes)
Series
Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe; 3
Pages
250\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-23 04:22:07

Description

Open AccessThe socialist states of Eastern Europe closely and suspiciously observed the expellee organizations that had emerged in the Federal Republic since the late 1940s, including their political activities. This volume, for the first time, takes a look at this ‘enemy and foreign observation’ by the intelligence services, using various case studies from the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. It examines what the secret services knew about the expellee functionaries and their past, and asks what information was collected and how it was used. In addition, the role of the Germans who remained in the socialist states and the Aussiedler, who came to the FRG and formed a link between the expellees and their ‘old homeland’, is examined. The volume thus makes an important contribution to research on the perception of the expellee organizations in the socialist states, on the work of the security services, and on bilateral contacts during the ‘Cold War’.

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