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

by Stefan Lehr (Editor)

Overview

The 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’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110795226
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/24/2022
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Language:	German
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Stefan Lehr, Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (BKGE), Oldenburg, Deutschland.

Stefan Lehr, Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (BKGE), Oldenburg, Germany.

Editorial Reviews

"ein bedeutender Beitrag zu den deutschen Vertriebenenverbänden" – Martin Renghart, in: Bohemia 62 (2022), S. 128–130.

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"Wieder einmal ist dem noch jungen Journal ein überzeugender Wurf gelungen." Die Ausgabe sei eine „kompakte und eingängige Übersichtsdarstellung" zum Schwerpunktthema, die stellenweise auch mit "Pionierleistungen" aufwarte, die "wertvolle Impulse" böten und „gleich mehrere weiße Flecken getilgt" hätten. – Matthias E. Cichon, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 72 (2023), H. 4, S. 638–640

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