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"After World War II, 154,000 Germans were arrested by the Soviet secret police and held incommunicado in so-called special camps in the Soviet occupation zone. One third of the inmates did not survive captivity. Based on Russian and German sources, Displaced Terror : History and Perception of Soviet Camps in Germany offers a multi-layered account of this chapter of Stalinist persecution and mass violence, which has largely been suppressed to this day. The reasons for this gap in German memory culture arealso addressed"--Provided by publisher.
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Contents
Preface to the English Edition
Chapter One - Introduction
The Camp System
Internees and SMT Prisoners
Explorations
Detention Measures
Detention Experiences
Detention Memories
Chapter Two - Detention Measures
Internments
"Mobilization" and "Cleansing the Rear Area" between December 1944 and April 1945
The NKVD Order No. 00315 or the End of "Mobilization"
The Primacy of the Pacification Policy
Isolation as "Political Prophylaxis"
Soviet Military Tribunals (SMTs)
The Work of the SMTs
Functional Changes in the Camp System
The Logic of Judicial Terror
Judicial Prosecution of "Class Enemies"
"Political Purges" and the Struggle against "Deviationists"
Russian Roulette
Chapter Three - Detention Experiences
Arrest
Dawn Raids
Denounced
In Shock
In the "GPU Cellars"
Detention Conditions
Interrogations
Traitors
Verdicts
In Special Camp No. 7/No. 1 Sachsenhausen
Parallel Worlds: "Politicals" and "Criminals"
The Divided Camp Community
Daily Life in the Sachsenhausen Special Camp
Fragments
Chapter Four - Detention Memoirs
Freedom
The Closure of the Special Camps, 1950
The Combat Group against Inhumanity
The Price of Recognition
"Empty" Memory Sites
"Second-Class Victims" or Self-Imposed Isolation
A Last Attempt: The Publication Offensive after 1989-1990
"Gray" Literature
The Dependency Trap
"Documentarism" as Narrative Style
"Alternate Framings" and Other "Narrative Templates"
Self-devised Traps-Memoirs after 1989
Chapter Five - The Special Camps and Their Place in History
Internment Camps
The POW Camps of the GUPVI
The Soviet GULAG
National Socialist Camps
Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index
Author Note
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Bettina Greiner is a German historian working at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and is coordinator of the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History.
