Narratives of Guilt and Compliance in Unified Germany: Stasi Informers and their Impact on Society

by Barbara Miller

Overview

Analysing Stasi files and interviews with one time informers, the author examines the confrontation with this legacy in united Germany. She discusses the daily machinations of the state and the motivation and justification of being an informer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415757690
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2014
Series:	Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1991 with a degree in German and Psychology. She taught and researched in Germany and Austria before completing her doctoral thesis in Glasgow in 1997. She is now based in Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘A Completely Normal Biography’? (A-3); Chapter 2 The Recruitment Process; Chapter 3 On Motivation; Chapter 4 Between Theory and Practice; Chapter 5 ‘If Only I Had Known’; Chapter 6 Politicians as Informers; Chapter 7 Justice and the Law; Chapter 8 The Guilt Continuum; Chapter 9 Looking Back; Chapter 10 Re-Acquisition of Biography; Chapter 11 Impact and Implications of an Extraordinary Legacy;