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"Gutes Klassenbewusstsein, Parteiverbundenheit und Prinzipienfestigkeit": SED-Sekretäre mit NSDAP-Vergangenheit in Thüringen
"Class consciousness, party alignment and adherence to Principles": Thuringian SED party secretaries with a NSDAP past
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Abstract "The First and Second Secretaries of the District and County Councils of the East German Communist Party (SED) were the provincial vicegerents of the regime and, thus, belonged to the most powerful exponents of the socialist society. As files from the Berlin Document Center prove, a considerable sha... mehr
"The First and Second Secretaries of the District and County Councils of the East German Communist Party (SED) were the provincial vicegerents of the regime and, thus, belonged to the most powerful exponents of the socialist society. As files from the Berlin Document Center prove, a considerable share of secretaries from counties that nowadays form the German State of Thuringia had been members of the NSDAP before 1945. However, this information is not confirmed by SED party records, foremost of which are the handwritten CVs in secretaries' cadre files. Although an 'automatic' or 'unconscious' 1944 NSDAP enlistment of youngsters has been a common interpretation among historians, new indications raise the questions to what extent the SED deliberately invited young careerists who had a tainted biography and whether or not a mutual agreement of silence and record forgery was made. At least one secretary (who later even became a GDR minister) admitted that he had joined the NSDAP and noted it in his post-1990 memoirs. Most remarkably, the autobiographical writings also refer to an early confession - absolution was received from a merited and elder Communist. It can be argued that the case was not a singularity." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; SED; Elite; politische Elite; Entnazifizierung; Partei; Mitgliedschaft; Biographie; NSDAP; Eliteforschung; Bestandsaufnahme; Thüringen; historische Analyse; DDR-Forschung; Macht; Parteisekretär; Herrschaftsapparat; DDR; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Opportunismus; Kommunismus; Integrationspolitik
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Methode
empirisch; historisch; empirisch-quantitativ
Sprache Dokument
Deutsch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 47-78
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 35 (2010) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.35.2010.3.47-78
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)