1st Edition
Narratives of Guilt and Compliance in Unified Germany Stasi Informers and their Impact on Society
By Barbara Miller
Copyright 1999
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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;
Biography
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.
