Constructions of Victimhood Remembering the Victims of State Socialism in Germany /

• Main Author: Clarke, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Subjects: Cultural heritage.; Ethnology-Europe.; Historiography.; War Crimes.; Europe-Politics and government.; Cultural Heritage.; European Culture.; Memory Studies.; European Politics.

The post-war Federal Republic of Germany faced the task of addressing the plight of the victims of state socialism under the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany and in the German Democratic Republic, many of whom fled to the west. These victims were not passive objects of the West German state'...